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

["J. K. Cliburn" <jcliburn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:37:13 GMT
> bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >         ReportedBy: badibere@xxxxxxxxx
> >         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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