Re: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Sep 26 2008 - 07:50:24 EST


Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:

this is the current set of patches that I have to help us debug
and/or fix e1000e issues found during this debug effort for
the corrupt NVM. the "drop stats lock" - "reset swflag" patches allow Thomas' patch for a mutex in the SWFLAG acquire function to run without any errors.

Thanks. Also Jesse Barnes' patch shouldn't be forgotten, could you please add it to that lineup?

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122237193628087&w=2


can we (for now) also stick a WARN_ON() into that failure path? that way we can at least
catch if/when this happens more visibly..... if it happens consistently in say the new distros
we can be more confident that we're down the right path in diagnosing the issue.

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