linux-kernel - Re: kexec fail with e1000 and e1000e

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Message-ID: <86802c440901152039i2021a8b0j3d6797593e05968e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:39:47 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Barnes, Jesse" <jesse.barnes@...el.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kexec fail with e1000 and e1000e

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> [    8.652468] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k3-NAPI
> [    8.658896] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
> [    8.680008] e1000 0000:05:01.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
> [    8.685831] vendor=1022 device=7458
> [    8.689314] e1000 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 48 (level, low) -> IRQ 48
> [    8.696184] e1000 0000:05:01.0: enabling bus mastering
> [    8.953642] e1000: 0000:05:01.0: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum
> Is Not Valid
> [    9.863340] /*********************/
> [    9.866829] Current EEPROM Checksum : 0xffff
> [    9.871092] Calculated              : 0xbaf9
> [    9.875354] Offset    Values
> [    9.878230] ========  ======
> [    9.881107] 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [    9.887622] 00000010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [    9.894137] 00000020: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [    9.900653] 00000030: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [    9.907168] 00000040: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [    9.913684] 00000050: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [    9.920200] 00000060: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [    9.926715] 00000070: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [    9.933231] Include this output when contacting your support provider.
> [    9.939746] This is not a software error! Something bad happened to
> your hardware or
> [    9.947475] EEPROM image. Ignoring this problem could result in
> further problems,
> [    9.954945] possibly loss of data, corruption or system hangs!
> [    9.960767] The MAC Address will be reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00,
> which is invalid
> [    9.968149] and requires you to set the proper MAC address manually
> before continuing
> [    9.975964] to enable this network device.
> [    9.980053] Please inspect the EEPROM dump and report the issue to
> your hardware vendor
> [    9.988041] or Intel Customer Support.
> [    9.991770] /*********************/
>
> git bisect said following patch is first bad one.
>
> commit 98e6e286d7b01deb7453b717aa38ebb69d6cefc0
> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> Date:   Wed Jan 7 13:10:35 2009 +0100
>
>    PCI PM: Register power state of devices during initialization
>
>    Use the observation that the power state of a PCI device can be
>    loaded into its pci_dev structure as soon as pci_pm_init() is run for
>    it and make that happen.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
>    Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
>    Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>

reverting that patch will make kexec work with e1000 again.

YH
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