From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5 v2] net/cpsw: don't rely only on netif_running() to check which device is active
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:44:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5174FF93.8070408@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130422083048.GA8162@linutronix.de>
On 4/22/2013 2:00 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I tried to describe the reason for that in my patch description. Here
> it is again: netif_running() reports false before ndo_close() has been
> called. That means an interrupt between the flag change and interrupt
> disabling in ndo_close() will currently lockup the box (IRQ_NONE would
> at least allow the core to disable the interrupt line).
>
> Initialyly I decided against using IFF_UP as well but using would work
> without the private active field. So here we have
>
> -v1…v2: replacing private active field with IFF_UP + netif_running()
>
> How about this?
If this is the case, then other Ethernet drivers will also have the same
scenario,
if it can be fixed in a generic way then i will be good.
Regards
Mugunthan V N
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-22 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-17 21:52 my small cpsw queue Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-17 21:52 ` [PATCH 1/5] net/davinci_cpdma: don't check for jiffies with interrupts Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-18 11:49 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-17 21:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] net/cpsw: don't continue if we miss to allocate rx skbs Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-18 11:50 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-18 12:09 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-19 10:40 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-22 8:05 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-17 21:52 ` [PATCH 3/5] net/cpsw: don't rely on netif_running() to check which device is active Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-18 11:50 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-18 12:10 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-19 10:35 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-22 8:30 ` [PATCH 3/5 v2] net/cpsw: don't rely only " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-22 9:14 ` Mugunthan V N [this message]
2013-04-22 9:30 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-22 9:40 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-22 9:49 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-22 10:12 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-22 10:19 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-22 19:21 ` David Miller
2013-04-19 13:10 ` [PATCH 3/5] net/cpsw: don't rely " Sergei Shtylyov
2013-04-22 8:33 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-17 21:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] net/davinci_cpdma: remove unused argument in cpdma_chan_submit() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-18 11:51 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-17 21:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] net/cpsw: redo rx skb allocation in rx path Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-18 11:50 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-18 12:13 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-04-19 10:28 ` Mugunthan V N
2013-04-18 14:59 ` Eric Dumazet
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