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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ISDN] Fix random hard freeze with AVM c4 card
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:25:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071017142556.0fda897f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071017110744.GA6687@pingi.kke.suse.de>

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:07:44 +0200
Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> wrote:

> The patch
> - Includes the call to capilib_data_b3_req in the spinlock. This routine
>   in turn calls the offending mq_enqueue routine that triggered the
>   freeze if not locked.  This should also fix other indicators of
>   incosistent capilib_msgidqueue list, that trigger messages like:
>   Oct  5 03:05:57 BERL0 kernel: kcapi: msgid 3019 ncci 0x30301 not on queue
>   that we saw several times a day (usually several in a row).
> - Fixes all occurrences of c4_dispatch_tx to be called with active
>   spinlock, there were some instances where no lock was active. Mostly
>   these are in very infrequently called routines, so the additional
>   performance penalty is minimal.

I've tagged this patch and "[ISDN] fix random freezes with AVM B1 drivers"
as suitable for backporting into 2.6.23.x.  Please let me know if that was
not appropriate.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-17 11:07 [PATCH] [ISDN] Fix random hard freeze with AVM c4 card Karsten Keil
2007-10-17 21:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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