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Message-ID: <308581.79965.qm@web82104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:10:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@...global.net>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: split e820 reserved entries record to late v2
> David Witbrodt :
> [...]
> > ===== SETTERM OUTPUT =====
> > Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -98677795 ns)
> > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit timed out
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:221 dev_watchdog+0x21e/0x250()
> > Modules linked in: ipv6 cpufreq_userspace pcspkr 8250_pnp 8250 serial_core
> evdev
> > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc4.080829.yh-patches-tip #1
> > Call Trace:
> [...]
> > [] cpu_idle+0x56/0xa0
> > ---[ end trace 28095e4c2b529c2a ]---
> > r8169: eth0: link up
> > ===== END SETTERM OUTPUT =====
> >
> > Other than this strangeness, everything seems OK with your patches. This
> > looks like some random networking annoyance to me, not really related to
> > the regression patches, but I'll let better minds be the judge of that.
>
> Could you enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME ?
>
> Even if the networking driver manages to negotiate the link, this is
> the kind of message which upsets people (myself included :o) ).
Will do.
FYI, that kernel would not reproduce the call trace after several reboots.
I had never seen a trace like that before, and have not seen one since.
DW
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