From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom•com>
To: "Arkadiusz Mi??kiewicz" <a.miskiewicz@gmail•com>
Cc: "Matthew Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom•com>,
"Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom•com>,
"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tg3: BMC stops responding in 3.0
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:57:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110929235701.GA9513@mcarlson.broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109262031.33956.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:31:33AM -0700, Arkadiusz Mi??kiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 26 of September 2011, Matt Carlson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:45:50PM -0700, Arkadiusz Mi??kiewicz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was using 2.6.38.8 and recently tried to switch to 3.0.4 on Tyan S2891
> > > platform.
> > >
> > > This platform uses tg3:
> > > tg3 0000:0a:09.1: eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704) rev 2003]
> > > (PCIX:133MHz:64- bit) MAC address 00:e0:81:33:5e:af
> > > tg3 0000:0a:09.1: eth1: attached PHY is 5704 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet)
> > > (WireSpeed[1], EEE[0])
> > > tg3 0000:0a:09.1: eth1: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0]
> > > TSOcap[1] tg3 0000:0a:09.1: eth1: dma_rwctrl[769f4000] dma_mask[64-bit]
> > >
> > > With 2.6.38.8 everything was working fine. With 3.0.4 there is a problem.
> > > As soon as tg3 module is loaded or eth0 configured (can't tell which one
> > > since the machine is 400km away from me and I have no way to play with
> > > it other than ipmi or ssh) BMC stops responding (so all ipmitool
> > > commands over LAN stop working). Normal tg3 activity is not affected - I
> > > can ssh-in without a problem etc but ipmi over lan doesn't work.
> > >
> > > From ssh console "ipmitool lan print" works, shows data but for example
> > > after "ipmitool mc reset cold" it doesn't recover - ipmitool returns
> > > "Invalid channel: 255". I have to reboot to 2.6.38.8 and then issue
> > > "ipmitool mc reset cold" to recover.
> > >
> > > Any idea which tg3 change could break this? Can't bisect this due remote
> > > access only.
> > >
> > > I was hoping that maybe 9e975cc291d80d5e4562d6bed15ec171e896d69b
> > > "tg3: Fix io failures after chip reset" will fix things for me but no -
> > > this doesn't help.
> >
> > What version of the tg3 driver are you working with?
>
> The one in 3.0.4 kernel. I think it's 3.119 (at least modinfo says so).
Unfortunately there were a lot of changes between 3.117 and 3.119(+).
Is there any way you can narrow down the gap?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-29 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 19:45 tg3: BMC stops responding in 3.0 Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2011-09-26 18:22 ` Matt Carlson
2011-09-26 18:31 ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2011-09-29 23:57 ` Matt Carlson [this message]
2011-09-30 8:06 ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2011-09-30 23:53 ` Matt Carlson
2011-10-01 5:37 ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2011-10-26 15:49 ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2011-11-11 4:30 ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
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