Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39 | | From | Eric Dumazet <> | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:45:03 +0200 |
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Le lundi 22 août 2011 à 09:36 +0300, Avi Kivity a écrit : > On 08/20/2011 04:16 PM, Brad Campbell wrote: > > Author: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> > > Date: Thu Jul 1 13:28:27 2010 +0000 > > > > x86: Drop CONFIG_MCORE2 check around setting of NET_IP_ALIGN > > > > This patch removes the CONFIG_MCORE2 check from around > > NET_IP_ALIGN. It is > > based on a suggestion from Andi Kleen. The assumption is that > > there are > > not any x86 cores where unaligned access is really slow, and this > > change > > would allow for a performance improvement to still exist on > > configurations > > that are not necessarily optimized for Core 2. > > > > Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > > Cc: x86@kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> > > Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > > > > :040000 040000 5a15867789080a2f67a74b17c4422f85b7a9fb4a > > b98769348bd765731ca3ff03b33764257e23226c M arch > > > > I can confirm this bug exists in the 3.0 kernel, however I'm unable to > > reproduce it on todays git. > > > > So anyone using netfilter, kvm and bridge on kernels between > > 2.6.36-rc1 and 3.0 may hit this bug, but it looks like it is fixed in > > the current 3.1-rc kernels. > > > > Thanks for this effort. I don't think this patch is buggy in itself, it > merely exposed another bug which was fixed later on. >
Some piece of hardware has a 2-byte offset requirement, and driver incorrectly assumed NET_IP_ALIGN was 2 on x86.
Brad, could you post your config (lsmod, dmesg) again ?
tg3.c code for example uses a private value, not related to NET_IP_ALIGN
#define TG3_RAW_IP_ALIGN 2
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