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From: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S.Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Netconsole & sungem: hang when link down
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:35:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006113541.5d395ffa@pirandello> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097053738.16741.58.camel@gaston>

On 06 Oct 2004 at 19h10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

Hi, 

> Hrm... we have some sort of spinlock debugging, at least on ppc64...
> BTW, did you have SMP or PREEMPT ? If none of these, then you should
> not see any spin deadlock...

No, in fact. You're right...
Indeed, if there was a deadlock, it would also happen when cable is
plugged in, wouldn't it ? (as sungem outputs "Link is up at xxx..." or
something when correctly initialized).

> The solution is to look at the code though and find what's wrong :)

I'll try. 
The called method in the driver when calling 
  dev_change_flags(ndev, ndev->flags | IFF_UP) from netpoll
is
  gem_open(), if I'm not mistaken?

Could some kind of infinite loop happen within gem_link_timer, maybe ?

-- 
Colin

      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20041006083954.0abefe57@pirandello>
2004-10-06  8:16 ` Netconsole & sungem: hang when link down Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-06  8:42   ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-06  9:08     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-06  9:35       ` Colin Leroy [this message]

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