netdev - Re: ixgbe: RTNL assertion failed

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Message-ID: <20130503205121.5b81a355@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Fri, 3 May 2013 20:51:21 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	"Skidmore, Donald C" <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ixgbe: RTNL assertion failed

On Sat, 4 May 2013 02:54:06 +0100
Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:17:39PM +0000, Skidmore, Donald C wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-
> > > owner@...r.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
> > > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 12:09 PM
> > > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T
> > > Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> > > Subject: ixgbe: RTNL assertion failed
> > > 
> > > Running 3.9 kernel, ixgbe is splatting on resume from suspend.
> > > 
> > > [26430.213254] ixgbe 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [26430.213257]
> > > RTNL: assertion failed at /build/buildd-linux_3.2.41-2-amd64-Wvc92F/linux-
> > > 3.2.41/net/core/dev.c (1758) [26430.213259] Pid: 7839, comm: kworker/u:1
> > > Not tainted 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.2.41-2 [26430.213261] Call Trace:
> [...]
> > I'm having a little problem finding a path were we call netif_set_real_num_tx_queues without holding RTNL in net-next.  While looking over the stack dump one of our engineers noticed the text "Not tainted 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.2.41-2 ".  Could this mean I'm looking over the wrong source?  It would make me feel better as I'm not seeing anything as is. :)
> 
> Indeed, this is not 3.9.
> 
> The version of ixgbe in this Debian kernel has bql support backported,
> but is otherwise the same as in 3.2.41.  I assume that this bug has
> been fixed some time between 3.2 and 3.9, but no-one requested that
> the fix be included in stable branches.  Please can you identify the
> fix?
> 
> Ben.
> 

Yeah, it was a Debian kernel, thought it was 3.9, must have been swapping kernels.


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