Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:58:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Thursday 02 October 2008 18:27:12 Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > > so, why now? Drivers since before the e1000/e1000e split had this same > > code, with no reports of problems. This code has been heavily tested, > > and one of the platforms easily reproducing this has been available for > > 3 years now (ich8), with code that is basically unchanged in the driver. > > Possibly the dhcp client is doing something differently, or at a much higher > frequency. At any rate, it seems we're seeing this now even when we just > use init level 3, without X involvement. Karsten reports NVM corruption > after 34 reboots into init level 3.
Had Karsten the mutex patch applied or not ?
tglx
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