netdev - tg3: Occassional death on 3.3

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:22:31 -0400
From:	Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
To:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: tg3: Occassional death on 3.3

Hello,

I'm observing an issue where it appears that tg3 gets wedged into a
bad state every so often, and never recovers. Doing a sequence of

ifconfig eth0 down
rmmod broadcom
rmmod tg3

modprobe broadcom
modprobe tg3

Makes everything work again. The card I have:

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink
BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1691] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell XPS 8300 [1028:04aa]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
        Memory at fb100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [60] Vendor Specific Information: Len=6c <?>
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [cc] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number [the mac address]
        Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
        Kernel driver in use: tg3
        Kernel modules: tg3

I'm attaching the log for the full data dump, since my mailer will
wrap it horribly otherwise, but the interesting lines are:

[2234380.228971] tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting
... some kind of data dump ...
[2234382.216682] tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: 0: Host status block
[00000001:00000080:(0000:01ef:0000):(01ef:00b2)]
[2234382.216685] tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: 0: NAPI info
[00000080:00000080:(00cb:00b2:01ff):01ef:(00b7:0000:0000:0000)]
[2234382.319550] tg3 0000:03:00.0: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=1400
enable_bit=2
[2234382.421931] tg3 0000:03:00.0: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=c00
enable_bit=2
[2234382.427199] tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: Link is down
[2234382.438168] tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: Link is down

Any further attempts to use the NIC, like ifconfig down/up result in a
similar error log sequence happening. Also, while it's happening, the
computer feels extremely laggy for a short period of time (~1s),
leading me to believe it's doing an uninterruptible sleep of some kind
going on.

This has happened twice, and at least the second time, there was no
unusual traffic on the network. It's linked at 100M, and was probably
doing 10K/s at most when the error happened. If this is insufficient
information, please let me know what I should collect next time this
might happen.

Thanks,

  -ilia

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