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Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)



On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:28 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of 
> days ago, including
> 
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb            
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb
> 
> This kernel is likely to become the final kernel version for etch, so 
> it is important to give it as much testing as possible at that point.
> If you have a chance, take it for a spin on all machines you have 
> access to, and report the problems, if any.
Hi,

I just tested this on my Netra-X1. 

I am seeing occasional Kernel unaligned access messages as follows

Kernel unaligned access at TPC[5e4420] ip_rcv+0xd0/0x58c
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[517f84] ip_fast_csum+0xc/0x80
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[517f88] ip_fast_csum+0x10/0x80
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[517f8c] ip_fast_csum+0x14/0x80
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[517f94] ip_fast_csum+0x1c/0x80

These repeat something around every 6 seconds (although it often
varies). I've dumped the network traffic (both from the box itself
and from another) and I cannot see any obvious traffic pattern that
causes things to break.

I suspect that the problem has something to do with the tulip network
driver but do not have any better clue than that. I guess that I need to
log this as a bug.

Notes:

1 - the network is actually usable even with the issues (not surprising
the messages are just the kernel telling us that it has "fixed" the
problem.

2 - I had seen a similar thing with an earlier 2.6.18 kernel but at that
time I couldn't be sure whether it was my compilation environment that
was causing it.

Regards

Richard

-- 
Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>



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