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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Kernel panic after 7 days, 18hours, 30minutes if VLAN is up

I always get a Kernel panic after 7 days, 18hours and 30 minutes (186 hours and half) when I have my ethernet connection with VLANs in the OS (nios2 nommu running kernel 2.6.39). If the ethernet conn...
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8 years ago

It must be something with the value of the jiffies and vlan-ethernet layer for the nios2 architecture with the kernel v.2.6.39.4.

The problem appears when the jiffies reaches the value 0x04000000. Modifying INITIAL_JIFFIES it's possible to do fast tests doing the system go down (crashing) just when the system starts.

I have tested it with the kernel v.3.5 and it doesn't happen :/