Re: Oops: 17 SMP ARM (v3.16-rc2)

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Mon Aug 25 2014 - 06:18:49 EST


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 01:39:27PM +0000, Mattis Lorentzon wrote:
> All our tests seem to behave the same way on the Sabrelite as on our own board.
> A working theory is that the switch (3Com Switch 4400) triggers the degeneration
> of the network stack from which Linux does not seem to recover, even if we later
> bypass the switch and directly connect the board to the server machine.

Please can you try something - what happens if you completely disable
pause frame support (flow control) on all machines on the switch?

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