Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 : net tcp_input.c warnings

From: Dave Young
Date: Mon Jan 21 2008 - 23:37:59 EST


On Jan 22, 2008 5:14 AM, Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Dave Young wrote:
>
> > Please see the kernel messages following,(trigged while using some qemu session)
> > BTW, seems there's some e100 error message as well.
> >
> > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
> > e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.23-k4-NAPI
> > e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
> > modprobe:2331 conflicting cache attribute efaff000-efb00000 uncached<->default
> > e100: 0000:03:08.0: e100_probe: Cannot map device registers, aborting.
> > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:08.0 disabled
> > e100: probe of 0000:03:08.0 failed with error -12
> > eth0: setting full-duplex.
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2169 tcp_mark_head_lost+0x121/0x150()
> > Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss eeprom e100 psmouse snd_hda_intel snd_pcm snd_timer btusb rtc_cmos thermal bluetooth rtc_core serio_raw intel_agp button processor sg snd rtc_lib i2c_i801 evdev agpgart soundcore dcdbas 3c59x pcspkr snd_page_alloc
> > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 #4
> > [<c0132100>] ? printk+0x0/0x20
> > [<c0131834>] warn_on_slowpath+0x54/0x80
> > [<c03e8df8>] ? ip_finish_output+0x128/0x2e0
> > [<c03e9527>] ? ip_output+0xe7/0x100
> > [<c03e8a88>] ? ip_local_out+0x18/0x20
> > [<c03e991c>] ? ip_queue_xmit+0x3dc/0x470
> > [<c043641e>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5e/0x70
> > [<c0186be1>] ? check_pad_bytes+0x61/0x80
> > [<c03f6031>] tcp_mark_head_lost+0x121/0x150
> > [<c03f60ac>] tcp_update_scoreboard+0x4c/0x170
> > [<c03f6e0a>] tcp_fastretrans_alert+0x48a/0x6b0
> > [<c03f7d93>] tcp_ack+0x1b3/0x3a0
> > [<c03fa14b>] tcp_rcv_established+0x3eb/0x710
> > [<c04015c5>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xe5/0x100
> > [<c0401bbb>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x5db/0x660
>
> Doh, once more these S+L things..., the rest are symptom of the first
> problem.

What is the S+L thing? Could you explain a bit?

>
> What is strange is that it doesn't show up until now, the last TCP
> changes that could have some significance are from early Dec/Nov. Is
> there some reason why you haven't seen this before this (e.g., not
> tested with similar cfg or so)?

Hmm, don't know how to answer ...

I'm a bit worried about its
> reproducability if it takes this far to see it...
>
>
> --
> i.
>
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