Re: Networkl problems with lastest kernel....

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 10:16 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:05:36 -0400
> 
> > But I have attached the new OOPS anyway.
> 
> The same problem is still there, this driver will
> unfortunately require quite a bit more surgery.
> 
> You can instead add the following patch, it will
> warn instead of BUG on you, and try to continue.

Argh, EMAC ! I suppose I need to go have a look & fix it :-)

EMAC does some strange things such as sharing one NAPI instance for
multiple devices. Dunno if that's related to the problem. I need to dig
a bit.

Cheers,
Ben.

> >From 867d79fb9a4d5929ad8335c896fcfe11c3b2ef14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:54:18 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] net: In __netif_schedule() use WARN_ON instead of BUG_ON
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 7e2d527..cbc34c0 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -1327,7 +1327,8 @@ static void dev_queue_xmit_nit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  
>  void __netif_schedule(struct Qdisc *q)
>  {
> -	BUG_ON(q == &noop_qdisc);
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(q == &noop_qdisc))
> +		return;
>  
>  	if (!test_and_set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_SCHED, &q->state)) {
>  		struct softnet_data *sd;