netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14336] New: [Pardus] Soft Lockup Problem with Attansic Ethernet Card

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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:39:10 -0500
From:	"J. K. Cliburn" <jcliburn@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	badibere@...il.com, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Chris Snook <chris.snook@...il.com>,
	Jie Yang <jie.yang@...eros.com>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14336] New: [Pardus] Soft Lockup Problem with Attansic Ethernet Card


On Oct 6, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:

>
> (switched to email.  Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not  
> via the
> bugzilla web interface).
>
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:37:13 GMT
> bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:
>
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14336
>>
>>            Summary: [Pardus] Soft Lockup Problem with Attansic  
>> Ethernet
>>                     Card
>>            Product: Networking
>>            Version: 2.5
>>     Kernel Version: 2.6.30.8
>>           Platform: All
>>         OS/Version: Linux
>>               Tree: Mainline
>>             Status: NEW
>>           Severity: high
>>           Priority: P1
>>          Component: IPV4
>>         AssignedTo: shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
>>         ReportedBy: badibere@...il.com
>>         Regression: No
>>
>>
>> I have soft lockup problem with attansic ethernet card while  
>> activating eth0
>> interface.
>>
>> My ethernet card is 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic  
>> Technology Corp.
>> Device 1063 (rev c0)
>>
>> If I try to activate eth0 interface while network cable is pluged  
>> in, then
>> everything freezes.
>>
>> If I try to activate eth0 interface while network cable isn't  
>> pluged in, then
>> no problem. But, if i plug in, again freezes.
>>
>> My /var/log/syslog is in attachment.
>>
>
> From the dmesg output it appears that this card is driven by the atl1c
> driver:
>
> Oct  7 00:55:57 baDibere kernel: [  169.943463] atl1c 0000:09:00.0:  
> Unable to allocate MSI interrupt Error: -22
> Oct  7 00:55:57 baDibere kernel: [  169.943576] atl1c 0000:09:00.0:  
> atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
> Oct  7 00:56:22 baDibere kernel: [  194.849361] NVRM: Xid  
> (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00003651
> Oct  7 00:56:31 baDibere kernel: [  203.849307] NVRM: Xid  
> (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00003653
> Oct  7 00:56:36 baDibere kernel: [  208.849339] NVRM: Xid  
> (0001:00): 8, Channel 00000003
> Oct  7 00:56:41 baDibere kernel: [  213.852320] NVRM: Xid  
> (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00003655
>
>
> The "Unable to allocate MSI interrupt" might be the immediate problem.
>
> Who belongs to MSI interrupt allocation?  PCI?  ACPI?
>
> However the driver does attempt to handle and recover from the MSI
> interrupt allocation error so perhaps that's no the cause at all.
>

I'd be curious to know if the lockup occurs when booted with pci=nomsi.

Jay
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