From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tmnt04.transmode.se (147.175.241.83.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [83.241.175.147]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28899DDDFB for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:49:22 +1100 (EST) From: "Joakim Tjernlund" To: "'Scott Wood'" , "'Kumar Gala'" Subject: RE: mpc83xx_restart() buggy Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:49:14 +0100 Message-ID: <012101c72c00$256bc370$1e67a8c0@Jocke> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <45959EFC.4040404@freescale.com> Cc: 'linuxppc-dev' List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > -----Original Message----- > From: > linuxppc-dev-bounces+joakim.tjernlund=transmode.se@ozlabs.org > [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+joakim.tjernlund=transmode.se@ozl > abs.org] On Behalf Of Scott Wood > Sent: den 30 december 2006 00:04 > To: Kumar Gala > Cc: Tjernlund; 'linuxppc-dev' > Subject: Re: mpc83xx_restart() buggy > > Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Tjernlund wrote: > >>mpc83xx_restart() uses ioremap(), which doesn't like > >>beeing called while in IRQ context. > >> > >>Calling mpc83xx_restart() in IRQ context yields OOPS > >>which calls mpc83xx_restart() again and the loop never > >>termintes. > > > > This is interesting, I know I've seen restart work properly w/o an > > oops. How are you causing the restart? > > sysrq-b triggers it, as probably does crashing from an > interrupt handler > with panic_timeout nonzero. You'll need CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP > turned on, of course. For me it was http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-December/029414.html ucc_geth_timeout() is buggy and so is ucc_geth_start_xmit(), needs to return NETDEV_TX_BUSY or NETDEV_TX_OK. Jocke