sky2 or acpi problem ?

From: Lionel Landwerlin
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 13:00:49 EST


Hi,
we already had words on lkml about this bug with sky2 driver.

I was having problems, and you told me to use the disable_msi=1
parameter to see what happens. After a couple of hours of testing with
heavly ethernet load, I answered you it had fixed the problem. I was
wrong. Now, it takes much more time to crash. Most of time, I can't even
see what happens beacause the box is completly frozen. But after several
crashs, I only had my keyboard locked, usb unpowered, and ethernet
interface down, I finally had the possibility see that :

Feb 1 18:35:06 cocoduo kernel: [59723.468000] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Feb 1 18:35:07 cocoduo kernel: [59723.468000] sky2 eth0: tx timeout
Feb 1 18:35:07 cocoduo kernel: [59723.468000] sky2 eth0: transmit ring 64 .. 41 report=65 done=65
Feb 1 18:35:07 cocoduo kernel: [59723.468000] sky2 status report lost?
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [softlockup_tick+155/208] softlockup_tick+0x9b/0xd0
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [update_process_times+49/128] update_process_times+0x31/0x80
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [smp_apic_timer_interrupt+145/176] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x91/0xb0
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [apic_timer_interrupt+31/36] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1f/0x24
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [_spin_lock_bh+15/32] _spin_lock_bh+0xf/0x20
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [pg0+945481365/1068803072] sky2_tx_timeout+0xf5/0x1d0 [sky2]
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [dev_watchdog+0/208] dev_watchdog+0x0/0xd0
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [dev_watchdog+192/208] dev_watchdog+0xc0/0xd0
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [run_timer_softirq+273/400] run_timer_softirq+0x111/0x190
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [__do_softirq+116/240] __do_softirq+0x74/0xf0
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [do_softirq+59/80] do_softirq+0x3b/0x50
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [smp_apic_timer_interrupt+150/176] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x96/0xb0
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [apic_timer_interrupt+31/36] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1f/0x24
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [pg0+943208348/1068803072] acpi_processor_idle+0x1fd/0x3b9 [processor]
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [cpu_idle+116/208] cpu_idle+0x74/0xd0
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [start_kernel+872/1072] start_kernel+0x368/0x430
Feb 1 18:35:16 cocoduo kernel: [59733.200000] [unknown_bootoption+0/624] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x270

It's exactly the same error than before. What do you think of this
trace ? Is it related to sky2 driver or acpi ? Did you add debug output
since 2.6.19.2 (version of the kernel I'm using) that would help to fix
that bug ? What can I do to help to fix the bug ?

Regards,

--
Lionel Landwerlin <landwer@xxxxxxx>

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