netdev - Re: STMMAC driver: NFS Problem on 2.6.37

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:07:08 -0500
From:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:	deepaksi <deepak.sikri@...com>
Cc:	<Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Armando VISCONTI <armando.visconti@...com>,
	Shiraz HASHIM <shiraz.hashim@...com>,
	Viresh KUMAR <viresh.kumar@...com>
Subject: Re: STMMAC driver: NFS Problem on 2.6.37


On Jan 13, 2011, at 4:09 AM, deepaksi wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am facing a problem related to nfs boot, while using the stmmac driver
> ported on 2.6.37 kernel. When we use a JFFS2 file system and mount the kernel,
> the network driver works fine.
> 
> I have been following the mailing list and could find some issues with NFS 
> on 2.6.37 but I am not too sure whether the kernel crash I am getting is 
> related to that.
> 
> The driver worked fine on 2.6.32 kernel, but while booting the 2.6.37
> kernel I get the following log messages:
> 
> stmmac: Rx Checksum Offload Engine supported
>        TX Checksum insertion supported
> IP-Config: Complete:
>     device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.10, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255,
>     host=192.168.1.10, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
>     bootserver=192.168.1.1, rootserver=192.168.1.1, rootpath=

Why is rootpath left undefined?

> VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(2,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> partitions:
> 1f00              64 mtdblock0  (driver?)
> 1f01             256 mtdblock1  (driver?)
> 1f02            2816 mtdblock2  (driver?)
> 1f03            5056 mtdblock3  (driver?)
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(2,0)
> Backtrace:
> [<c00370f0>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0037234>]
> (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
> r7:c7b5b000 r6:00000000 r5:c7b5b015 r4:c04296b8
> [<c003721c>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c004ebf8>] (panic+0x60/0x180)
> [<c004eb98>] (panic+0x0/0x180) from [<c0009114>]
> (mount_block_root+0x1d4/0x214)
> r3:00000000 r2:00000001 r1:c782bf50 r0:c0394851
> [<c0008f40>] (mount_block_root+0x0/0x214) from [<c00091fc>]
> (mount_root+0xa8/0xc8)
> [<c0009154>] (mount_root+0x0/0xc8) from [<c0009388>]
> (prepare_namespace+0x16c/0x1d0)
> r4:c04288c0
> [<c000921c>] (prepare_namespace+0x0/0x1d0) from [<c0008904>]
> (kernel_init+0x1cc/0x220)
> r5:c0402048 r4:c0428860
> [<c0008738>] (kernel_init+0x0/0x220) from [<c00522a8>] (do_exit+0x0/0x5e0)
> r7:00000013 r6:c00522a8 r5:c0008738 r4:00000000
> CPU0: stopping
> Backtrace:
> [<c00370f0>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0037234>]
> (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
> r7:c0405484 r6:00000406 r5:00000000 r4:00000000
> [<c003721c>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c002d334>] (do_IPI+0xb4/0x124)
> [<c002d280>] (do_IPI+0x0/0x124) from [<c0032bb4>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0xc0)
> Exception stack(0xc03f3f50 to 0xc03f3f98)
> 3f40:                                     c0402048 00000000 c03f3f98
> 00000000
> 3f60: c03f2000 c04288dc c0027290 c0405484 000258e8 411fc091 00000000
> c03f3fa4
> 3f80: c03f3fa8 c03f3f98 c0034a24 c0034a28 60000013 ffffffff
> r5:fc800100 r4:ffffffff
> [<c00349fc>] (default_idle+0x0/0x30) from [<c0034874>] (cpu_idle+0x80/0xc0)
> [<c00347f4>] (cpu_idle+0x0/0xc0) from [<c030602c>] (rest_init+0x64/0x7c)
> r5:c04288dc r4:c04020b0
> [<c0305fc8>] (rest_init+0x0/0x7c) from [<c0008bd4>]
> (start_kernel+0x27c/0x2d8)
> [<c0008958>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x2d8) from [<00008038>] (0x8038)
> r5:c0401fac r4:10c5387d
> 
> I have tried the same over latest source picked from linus tree,
> 4162cf64973df51fc885825bc9ca4d055891c49f
> Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
> 
> We are using version 3 of the NFs protocol in kernel's NFS client.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Deepak
> ST Microelectronics
> 
> .
> 
> 
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