Bug 527101

Summary: atl1 repeated link up down
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: johan <johan_vdp>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 11CC: dougsland, gansalmon, itamar, kernel-maint, piotrdrag
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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dmesg of kernel with pci=nomsi
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lspci -vv none

Description johan 2009-10-04 14:18:04 UTC
dmesg shows 100s of
atl1 0000:01:00.0: eth0 link is down
atl1 0000:01:00.0: eth0 link is up 100 Mbps full duplex
atl1 0000:01:00.0: eth0 link is down
atl1 0000:01:00.0: eth0 link is up 100 Mbps full duplex
..

A related message that looks suspicious:
atl1 0000:01:00.0: Unable to enable MSI: -22

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux blauw 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 17:17:40 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

When looking into this problem I found the same in an identical machine running Fedora 10.
Linux htpc 2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 17 08:18:34 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

How reproducible:
When machine is on.

Additional info:
The network connection does function, although it is erratic and slow. (That is why I started looking.)
I have checked cabling and switch, only one single connection to a switch shows the same behaviour. same/other cable, same/other switch, the error remains. Both identical PCs failing at the same task is also unlikely.

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2009-10-06 12:43:52 UTC
Does adding 'pci=nomsi' to the boot options make any difference?

Comment 2 johan 2009-10-06 21:15:18 UTC
The pci=nomsi boot option has no effect.
Googling 'MSI 22 atl1' shows many 'unconditionally enable MSI' references.
So I tried disabling MSI on the pci bridge leading to the ethernet device (echo 0 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:1c.5/msi_bus), which did not help either.

Comment 3 johan 2009-10-06 21:16:29 UTC
Created attachment 363900 [details]
dmesg of kernel with pci=nomsi

Comment 4 johan 2009-10-06 21:19:51 UTC
Created attachment 363901 [details]
lspci -vv

Comment 5 johan 2009-11-06 21:02:56 UTC
A new switch solved the problem.
Please close this 'bug'.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-10-20 16:45:58 UTC
libextractor-0.6.3-1805.1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libextractor-0.6.3-1805.1.fc18