Hi Russell,

It seems to be a compiler issue, where (GCC) 4.8.2 does not produce a properly
working kernel. Happily, (Fedora 2013.11.24-2.fc19) 4.8.1 appears to do a lot
better. No crashes so far with v3.16-rc2!

All the best,
Fredrik

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Hi Fredrik,

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:16:57PM +0000, Fredrik Noring wrote:

quoted

Please find below a trace that appeared once with 3.16-rc2. Perhaps it
is of some interest?

It's not that serious... I know that the FEC ethernet driver is horrendously
racy (I have had a patch set for about the last six months which fixes some of
its problems) but as I've had a lot of patches to deal with, and it's been
pushed to the back of the queue...

The races don't lead to data corruption though, merely timeouts and some
lost packets.

Now because things have changed during the last merge window, I've got an
even bigger problem sorting through that patch set and getting it back into a
submittable state.  I've just sent out v2 for it onto the
netdev at vger.kernel.org mailing list.

The initial version (marked RFC) attracted very little interest from testers, or
acks.  I'd very much like to have some testing of it, so if you want to try it
out, I can provide you with a git URL, patches or a combined patch.

--
FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly
improving, and getting towards what was expected from it.

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