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From: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent netpoll hanging when link is down
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:45:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041011224542.5bdc93aa@jack.colino.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041011165851.GN31237@waste.org>

On 11 Oct 2004 at 11h10, Matt Mackall wrote:

Hi, 

> Ergh, you deleted the context. Again, imagine we're originally in
> ->poll() for _a non-netpoll-related reason_. In other words, the
> console sem is not taken, because we're just doing routine network
> I/O. While in poll(), we take a private driver lock. Then for whatever
> reason, we printk -> netconsole -> netpoll -> poll() again where we
> attempt to retake the private driver lock.
> 
> > P.S.: I made the same mistake long ago, but akpm set me straight.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this case is different.

I tried replacing spin_lock by spin_trylock in poll() and a few other
functions (and returning accordingly), but it didn't help. I'm beginning
to think I won't be able to debug this one! ;)

-- 
Colin
  "When in doubt, do the right thing."

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-11 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20041006232544.53615761@jack.colino.net>
2004-10-06 21:43 ` [PATCH] Prevent netpoll hanging when link is down Matt Mackall
2004-10-07  5:53   ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-07  6:49     ` David S. Miller
2004-10-07  8:33       ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-07  8:45         ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-07 14:05       ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-07 18:28         ` David S. Miller
2004-10-07 18:41           ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-07 20:00             ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-07 18:43           ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-07 20:44           ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-07 21:45             ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-07 21:50               ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-07 22:07                 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-07 23:43                   ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-07 23:50                     ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-08  6:46                       ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-08 21:53                         ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-08  7:06               ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-08 22:00                 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-08 22:18                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-11  3:59                     ` David S. Miller
2004-10-11 15:40                       ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-11 16:22                         ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-11 16:32                           ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-11 16:36                             ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-11 16:43                               ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-11 16:58                                 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-11 17:41                                   ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-11 20:45                                   ` Colin Leroy [this message]
     [not found]                                     ` <5cac192f0410181443303379e2@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                                       ` <5cac192f041018145824acce5a@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                                         ` <20041020161119.6e30efe5@pirandello>
     [not found]                                           ` <5cac192f0410200848179ccc81@mail.gmail.com>
2004-10-21 16:36                                             ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-24 15:22                                               ` Eric Lemoine
2004-10-07 22:08             ` David S. Miller
2004-10-08  6:54               ` Colin Leroy

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