2.4.16 freezed up with eepro100 module

Sven Heinicke (sven@research.nj.nec.com)
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:25:30 -0500 (EST)


The 2.4.16 kernel finally makes my clients happy with memory
management. The systems that froz up is a Dell of some sort or other
with two 1Ghz Pentium IIIs and 4G of memory. But, now I seems to be
having ethernet problems. With and eepro100 card:

Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 8).
IRQ 16.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfeb02000 [0xfeb02fff].
I/O at 0xfcc0 [0xfcff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe900000 [0xfe9fffff].

loaded as a module, being used heavily, the system froze with nothing
on the console when I saw it. Normal log messages until:

Nov 28 22:03:31 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Nov 28 22:05:03 ps1 kernel: 0001.
Nov 28 22:05:03 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
Nov 28 22:05:04 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Nov 28 22:05:05 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Nov 28 22:05:06 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
Nov 28 22:05:06 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Nov 28 22:05:07 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
Nov 28 22:05:08 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
Nov 28 22:05:09 ps1 kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Nov 28 22:05:17 ps1 last message repeated 10 times
Nov 28 22:05:18 ps1 kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags&MSG_PEEK) failed at tcp.c(1463):tcp_recvmsg
Nov 28 22:07:48 ps1 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources.
Nov 28 22:08:19 ps1 last message repeated 19 times
Nov 28 22:09:20 ps1 last message repeated 56 times
...
Nov 29 03:57:34 ps1 last message repeated 5 times
Nov 29 03:58:36 ps1 last message repeated 4 times
Nov 29 03:59:41 ps1 last message repeated 5 times
Nov 29 04:00:44 ps1 last message repeated 4 times
Nov 29 04:01:47 ps1 last message repeated 6 times
Nov 29 09:54:13 ps1 syslogd 1.4-0: restart.

Then me hitting the reset key before 10am. I'm going to start digging
through the code (guess it will be more of a learning experience for
me rather then actually being able to help code). So any suggestions
will be helpful.

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Sven Heinicke <sven@research.nj.nec.com> Princeton, NJ
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