Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 May 2006 03:57:28 -0400 | From | Ayaz Abdulla <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.17-rc4 |
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Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Friday 12 May 2006 00:44, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>Ok, I've let the release time between -rc's slide a bit too much again, >>but -rc4 is out there, and this is the time to hunker down for 2.6.17. >> >>If you know of any regressions, please holler now, so that we don't miss >>them. >> >>-rc4 itself is mainly random driver fixes (sound, infiniband, scsi, >>network drivers), but some splice fixes too and some arch (arm, powerpc, >>mips) updates. Shortlog follows, > > > Linus, > > I've got an oops in the forcedeth driver on shutdown. Sorry for the crappy > camera phone pictures, this board doesn't have RS232 ports: > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060512/ > > It was initially difficult to reproduce, but I found I could do so reliably if > I ssh'ed into the box and halted it remotely, then it would always oops on > shutdown. I assume this is because the driver is still active when something > happens to it during halt. > > There's been just a single commit since -rc3: > > forcedeth: fix multi irq issues > ebf34c9b6fcd22338ef764b039b3ac55ed0e297b > > However, it could have just been hidden since before -rc3, so I'll try to work > backwards if nobody has any immediate ideas.. >
The interrupt handler could be called during the same time (on different cpu) the dev->stop function is clearing out the rings (nv_txrx_reset).
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