Re: sky2 driver breaks reboot/shutdown

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Wed Nov 16 2011 - 17:48:12 EST


On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:14:13 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx> wrote:

> [ Resending since my first attempt apparently did not make it to the
> mailing lists. Apologies to anyone who receives duplicates. ]
>
> Hi,
>
> after upgrading from Linux 3.1 to 3.2-rc2 I noticed that the kernel
> would no longer reboot or shutdown properly, hanging instead. Removing
> the sky2 driver works around this. According to "lspci -v", I have the
> following network card:
>
> ,----
> | 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
> | Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 108f
> | Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> | Memory at fdefc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> | I/O ports at ce00 [size=256]
> | [virtual] Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> | Capabilities: <access denied>
> | Kernel driver in use: sky2
> `----
>
> Bisecting shows 0bdb0bd01 as the first bad commit:
>

Already reported. I am testing a fix. The hang is happening in synchronize_irq
in sky2_hw_all_down; but there are several other bugs that were introduced at the
same time.
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