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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 02/12] On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Jesse Brandeburg
<jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
>> Karsten has been testing kernel with these three patches from the series
>> applied:
>>
>> e1000e: reset swflag after resetting hardware
>> e1000e: fix lockdep issues
>> e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG
>>
>> This was done on a hardware which previously triggered the bug in just a
>> few test iterations in quite a reliable way. Now, with these patches
>> applied, the EEPROM corruption didn't happen after several tens of
>> iterations.
>>
>> Please note, that the patch that disables the writes to EEPROM on hardware
>> level was *not* involved in this testing.
>>
>> Therefore it currently seems that these three patches really address the
>> race condition issue that was present in the e1000e driver.
>
> Our experience is different. We are also testing with the "protection
> patch" reverted.
>
> We see that the problem specifically comes and goes when
> removing/adding the use of set_memory_ro/set_memory_rw to the driver.
>
> I'm working to catch the bad element in the act with a hardware
> breakpoint or an ITP (we're trying both)
>
>> It is still not clear why the bug started triggering all of a sudden for
>> so many people though.
>
> we plan to keep on working on this until we understand what is going on.

I removed the bad addresses from the cc: list


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