[gentoo-hardened] tg3 driver - transmit timed out, resetting

[David Sommerseth <gentoo.list@topphemmelig.net>]

Hello Folks!

Maybe some of you have seen this before, or know something ...  I have a 
Broadcom NetXtreme card which have locked up twice within 13 days.  I 
upgraded to the 2.6.25-hardened-r8 kernel mid-october, and have a feeling 
this upgrade introduced this issue.  Before that I was 
linux-2.6.22-hardened-r8 for over a year without any problems.  The log 
entries from both episodes are identical.

Any hints?  Are there any safe 2.6.26 or 2.6.27 kernels available?


kind regards,

David Sommerseth


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06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit 
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21)
         Subsystem: IBM eServer xSeries server mainboard
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 219
         Memory at d8200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
         Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
         Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data <?>
         Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ 
Queue=0/3 Enable+
         Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
         Kernel driver in use: tg3
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tg3.c:v3.91 (April 18, 2008)
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Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51195.788361] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit 
timed out
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51195.788424] tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, 
resetting
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51195.788464] tg3: DEBUG: MAC_TX_STATUS[ffffffff] 
MAC_RX_STATUS[ffffffff]
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51195.788500] tg3: DEBUG: RDMAC_STATUS[ffffffff] 
WDMAC_STATUS[ffffffff]
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51195.899576] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=2c00 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51196.004849] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=2000 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51196.110115] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=2400 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51196.215378] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=2800 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51196.320655] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=3000 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51196.425925] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=1400 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:34 linuxbox [51196.531191] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=1800 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:35 linuxbox [51196.636469] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=c00 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:35 linuxbox [51196.741735] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=4800 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:35 linuxbox [51196.847001] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=1000 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:35 linuxbox [51196.952267] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=1c00 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:35 linuxbox [51197.057655] tg3: tg3_abort_hw timed out for 
eth0, TX_MODE_ENABLE will not clear MAC_TX_MODE=ffffffff
Nov 28 12:47:35 linuxbox [51197.162912] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=3c00 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:35 linuxbox [51197.268179] tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, 
ofs=4c00 enable_bit=2
Nov 28 12:47:38 linuxbox [51199.841388] tg3: eth0: No firmware running.
Nov 28 12:47:39 linuxbox [51201.105071] tg3: tg3_abort_hw timed out for 
eth0, TX_MODE_ENABLE will not clear MAC_TX_MODE=ffffffff
Nov 28 12:47:59 linuxbox [51221.133560] tg3: eth0: Link is down.
Nov 28 13:09:03 linuxbox [51330.696020] tg3: tg3_abort_hw timed out for 
eth0, TX_MODE_ENABLE will not clear MAC_TX_MODE=ffffffff
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