linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG

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Date:	Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:33:22 +0200
From:	Olaf Kirch <okir@...e.de>
To:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Cc:	"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-netdev@...r.kernel.org, kkeil@...e.de, agospoda@...hat.com,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, "Graham, David" <david.graham@...el.com>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>, chris.jones@...onical.com,
	tim.gardner@...el.com, airlied@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG

On Thursday 02 October 2008 18:27:12 Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> so, why now?  Drivers since before the e1000/e1000e split had this same
> code, with no reports of problems.  This code has been heavily tested,
> and one of the platforms easily reproducing this has been available for
> 3 years now (ich8), with code that is basically unchanged in the driver.

Possibly the dhcp client is doing something differently, or at a much higher
frequency. At any rate, it seems we're seeing this now even when we just
use init level 3, without X involvement. Karsten reports NVM corruption
after 34 reboots into init level 3.

> The flash control registers are documented in the ICH documentation, and
> are located at physical memory location indicated by BAR1 in the config
> space of device 0:19.0
> 
> I wonder if we couldn't put a check in to see if the value we end up
> reading from the register controlling the operation matches the
> operation we were expecting (read vs write vs block erase)

That may help, yes.

Olaf
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