Hi, during bootup, I got ton of these:
WARNING: at drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c:413 e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan+0x43/0xf0() Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. e1000e mutex contention. Owned by pid -1 Modules linked in: Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.28-rc7-mm1_64 #490 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8023e25f>] warn_slowpath+0xaf/0x110 [<ffffffff803c1b1d>] ? vt_console_print+0x26d/0x380 [<ffffffff8023e403>] ? __call_console_drivers+0x73/0x90 [<ffffffff80259954>] ? up+0x34/0x50 [<ffffffff8023e98d>] ? release_console_sem+0x1bd/0x210 [<ffffffff803fe333>] e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan+0x43/0xf0 [<ffffffff803fe748>] e1000_read_nvm_ich8lan+0x78/0x130 [<ffffffff80401ad1>] e1000e_read_pba_num+0x31/0x80 [<ffffffff80589609>] e1000_probe+0xcb9/0xd00 [<ffffffff8035d46a>] ? kobject_get+0x1a/0x30 [<ffffffff80370092>] local_pci_probe+0x12/0x20 [<ffffffff80370c50>] pci_device_probe+0x80/0xa0 [<ffffffff803f36eb>] ? driver_sysfs_add+0x6b/0x90 [<ffffffff803f3832>] driver_probe_device+0xa2/0x1e0 [<ffffffff803f3a0b>] __driver_attach+0x9b/0xa0 [<ffffffff803f3970>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0xa0 [<ffffffff803f2ff3>] bus_for_each_dev+0x63/0x90 [<ffffffff80791560>] ? e1000_init_module+0x0/0x70 [<ffffffff803f367c>] driver_attach+0x1c/0x20 [<ffffffff803f28a8>] bus_add_driver+0x1f8/0x270 [<ffffffff80791560>] ? e1000_init_module+0x0/0x70 [<ffffffff803f3bf0>] driver_register+0x70/0x160 [<ffffffff80791560>] ? e1000_init_module+0x0/0x70 [<ffffffff80370f2a>] __pci_register_driver+0x5a/0xa0 [<ffffffff80791560>] ? e1000_init_module+0x0/0x70 [<ffffffff807915af>] e1000_init_module+0x4f/0x70 [<ffffffff80791360>] ? loop_init+0x0/0x1dc [<ffffffff8020903c>] _stext+0x3c/0x170 [<ffffffff8027f068>] ? register_irq_proc+0xb8/0xe0 [<ffffffff80300000>] ? load_script+0x70/0x250 [<ffffffff807726ab>] kernel_init+0x166/0x1c2 [<ffffffff8020d5ba>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [<ffffffff80772545>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1c2 [<ffffffff8020d5b0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 ---[ end trace 9c09681510f4b604 ]--- I've found few reports of this in the past, not sure if this one is related. The last known working is some mmotm based on -rc5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel