3C590 card problem
David Haring
dave@veronique.ibp.cz
Thu Oct 15 09:56:12 1998
Hello,
I have a machine running RedHat Linux 5.0, with the 3c59x.c:v0.99F
8/7/98 driver compiled in kernel and the 3COM 3c590 card.
This machine is web server, it server approx. 1GB of data per day and
receives about 3-5 hits per second and the system itself is just
moderately loaded. I have tried various versions of the 3c59x driver
(e.g. 99D,99E,99F) and also several versions of the Apache (ranging
from 1.2.5 to 1.3.2). The problem shows with all combinations of the
driver, after several days of use (varying from one day to one week)
the system hangs up (sometimes completely, sometimes just the
networking stops working) and the system log always contains messages
like the following:
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: general protection: 0000
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: CPU: 0
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: EIP: 0010:[tcp_recvmsg+368/1036]
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: EFLAGS: 00010217
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: eax: f000e987 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 01e97834 edx: f000f84d
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: esi: 01e978d0 edi: 000001a5 ebp: 01e97810 esp: 011c1ee8
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: Process apache (pid: 5336, process nr: 47, stackpage=011c1000)
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: Stack: 01e97810 011c1f7c 00000000 00000000 67a73d5a 01e97834 00000000 000001a5
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: 022f1414 018f9f48 57a83402 0014f3ee 01e97810 011c1f78 00000e5b 00000000
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: 00000000 011c1f7c 00001000 018f9f00 080b952c 018f9f90 001367ef 018f9f90
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: Call Trace: [inet_recvmsg+114/136] [sock_read+171/192] [sys_read+192/232] [system_call+85/124]
Oct 13 15:30:46 www kernel: Code: 8a 40 0d a8 02 74 04 ff 4c 24 10 8b 7c 24 10 39 7b 30 0f 87
... skipping ...
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on a list (from 02791dfc).
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address de78148b
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 01d97000,
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: *pde = 00000000
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Oops: 0002
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: CPU: 0
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: EIP: 0010:[<026c1414>]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: eax: 026c1414 ebx: 02791c0c ecx: 00004604 edx: 00004000
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: esi: 00000124 edi: 00000000 ebp: 056dd055 esp: 024a4d44
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Process apache (pid: 32692, process nr: 10, stackpage=024a4000)
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Stack: 001388e7 02791c0c 02791c0c 0000469c 00138be7 02791c0c 0000469c 0000469c
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: 02791c0c 00000000 00146d9e 0000469c 00000000 02791c0c 01975928 3f8d5400
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: 01975954 001c003c 00000000 00000003 00138903 01975954 001b5aa0 00000000
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Call Trace: [sock_wfree+35/44] [kfree_skb+183/244] [tcp_ack+1382/2244] [sock_rfree+19/32] [tcp_rcv+2051/2404] [vortex_rx+297/580] [ip_rcv+983/1288]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: [net_bh+252/284] [do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/24] [sock_rfree+2/32] [kfree_skb+166/244] [cleanup_rbuf+83/148] [tcp_recvmsg+1002/1036] [inet_recvmsg+114/136]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: [sock_read+171/192] [sys_read+192/232] [system_call+85/124]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Code: 10 98 77 00 0c 1c 6c 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 24 75 6c f7
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: general protection: 0000
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: CPU: 0
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: EIP: 0010:[def_callback3+15/60]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: eax: 0014e900 ebx: 02791810 ecx: 00004408 edx: 00000104
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: esi: 00000104 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00004480 esp: 00a5ed18
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Process apache (pid: 32656, process nr: 54, stackpage=00a5e000)
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Stack: 02791810 001388e7 02791810 02791810 00004480 00138be7 02791810 00004480
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: 0000ef00 00000000 00005810 00139062 00004480 00000000 0000ef80 0000446a
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: 00199c12 00004480 00000000 00000001 00004480 001c02b0 001c0218 00000000
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Call Trace: [sock_wfree+35/44] [kfree_skb+183/244] [dev_kfree_skb+62/76] [vortex_start_xmit+182/420] [do_dev_queue_xmit+423/472] [dev_queue_xmit+26/36] [ip_build_xmit+1455/2992]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: [__iget+470/544] [__brelse+34/68] [udp_send+209/244] [udp_getfrag+0/176] [do_fork+852/1996] [udp_sendto+196/232] [udp_sendmsg+52/192] [inet_sendmsg+149/172]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: [sys_send+221/240] [sys_socketcall+449/732] [system_call+85/124]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Code: 89 4c ff cf 39 83 3c 01 00 00 7c 1d 8b 83 d0 00 00 00 50 e8
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: general protection: 0000
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: CPU: 0
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: EIP: 0010:[def_callback3+15/60]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: eax: 0014e900 ebx: 024c1810 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000ec8
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: esi: 00000764 edi: 00000000 ebp: de90a432 esp: 001b357c
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0018 ss: 0018
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=001b1758)
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Stack: 024c1810 001388e7 024c1810 024c1810 023276e8 00138be7 024c1810 023276e8
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: 023276e8 024c1810 00000000 00146d9e 023276e8 00000000 024c1810 02411730
Oct 13 16:44:12 www kerneld: error: exit: Identifier removed
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: 01736436 0241175c 001c003c 00000000 00000003 024c1810 00004640 001b5aa0
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Call Trace: [sock_wfree+35/44] [kfree_skb+183/244] [tcp_ack+1382/2244] [tcp_rcv+2051/2404] [vortex_rx+297/580] [ip_rcv+983/1288] [net_bh+252/284]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: [do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/24] [sys_idle+92/112] [system_call+85/124] [init+0/612] [start_kernel+429/440]
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Code: 89 4c ff cf 39 83 3c 01 00 00 7c 1d 8b 83 d0 00 00 00 50 e8
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001b37a0, next= 00000000, order=0
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001b3790, next= 00000000, order=0
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001b3ca4, next= 00000000, order=0
Oct 13 18:44:12 www kernel: idle task may not sleep
Oct 13 18:44:12 www last message repeated 4 times
the card has been in use in another system before without problems
and is detected properly at startup:
The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command 0000->0005.
eth0: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0xef80, 00:20:af:d4:a8:3e, IRQ 11
32K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10base2 interface.
eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 64, new value is 248.
3c59x.c:v0.99F 8/7/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Does anybody has a solution? (Or should I exchange the card for another
one - if so which one?)
thanks in advance
David Haring
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