netdev - Re: Kernel panic from tg3 net driver

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Message-Id: <20111020.155659.486754557434415381.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:56:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ari.m.savolainen@...il.com
Cc:	richardcochran@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel panic from tg3 net driver

From: Ari Savolainen <ari.m.savolainen@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:30:44 +0300

> I finally got time to continue bisecting. The commit that causes the
> kernel panic is:  2669069aacc9 "tg3: enable transmit time stamping."

I thought initially that the issue might be that we have to do the
skb_tx_timestamp() call before we advance the mailbox transmit
descriptor pointer.

But that shouldn't matter, we run with a lock held, and TX reclaim takes
that same lock.

So I'm sort of stumped at the moment.

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