From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8139too: fix a TX timeout watchdog thread against NAPI softirq race
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:57:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060131185714.GA24635@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060131184957.GA22660@elte.hu>
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > Ingo's stealth lock validator detected that both thread acquire
> > dev->xmit_lock and tp->rx_lock in reverse order.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
>
> i've ported this to -mm4 (see the attached patch), but i'm also
> getting a new deadlock message. Seems to be a separate issue, not
> introduced by your patch - but still needs fixing i guess.
sorry - this is a false alarm. (caused by the lock validator not
properly handling DEBUG_SHIRQ)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-31 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-26 22:43 [lock validator] drivers/net/8139too.c: deadlock? Ingo Molnar
2006-01-27 0:35 ` Francois Romieu
2006-01-27 2:22 ` Herbert Xu
2006-01-27 2:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-31 0:24 ` [PATCH] 8139too: fix a TX timeout watchdog thread against NAPI softirq race Francois Romieu
2006-01-31 18:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-31 18:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-02-01 0:55 ` Andrew Morton
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