linux-kernel - Re: was: Re: A reliable kernel panic (3.6.2) and system crash when visiting a particular website

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1210211126570.14867-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:	Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:28:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Daniel Mack <zonque@...il.com>
cc:	"Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@...os.com>, <bp@...en8.de>,
	<pavel@....cz>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <security@...nel.org>,
	<linux-media@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<alsa-devel@...a-project.org>
Subject: Re: was: Re: A reliable kernel panic (3.6.2) and system crash when
 visiting a particular website

On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Daniel Mack wrote:

> As the usb list is still in Cc: - Artem's lcpci dump shows that his
> machine features XHCI controllers. Can anyone think of a relation to
> this problem?
> 
> And Artem, is there any way you boot your system on an older machine
> that only has EHCI ports? Thinking about it, I wonder whether the freeze
> in VBox and the crashes on native hardware have the same root cause. In
> that case, would it be possible to share that VBox image?

Don't grasp at straws.  All of the kernel logs Artem has posted show 
ehci-hcd; none of them show xhci-hcd.  Therefore the xHCI controller is 
highly unlikely to be involved.

Alan Stern

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