Re: 2.6.24-rc1 fails with lockup - /sbin/ifconfig / inet_ioctl() / dev_close() / rtl8169_down()

Ingo Molnar
2007-10-26T17:56:47Z

* Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > hm, from your log it appears that lockdep did not find anything,
> > still the hang does trigger.
> >
> > it's /sbin/ifconfig and inet_ioctl() / dev_close() / rtl8169_down()
> > that seems to be hanging. I've extracted the relevant backtrace
> > below. I've Cc:-ed people who might have a better idea about what's
> > going on.
>
> Are you building with NAPI enabled or not. Looks like the following
> might help the non-napi case.

the config from:

http://www.dea.icai.upcomillas.es/romano/linux/info/2624rc1_1/

suggests that NAPI was disabled:

CONFIG_R8169=m
# CONFIG_R8169_NAPI is not set
CONFIG_R8169_VLAN=y

Ingo