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From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@altlinux.org>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>,
	Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: via_rhine kernel crashes in 2.6.32
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:26:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091222152658.GA16043@core.hellgate.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091222150045.GA5355@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain>

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:00:45 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:38:17PM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > > > It looks like napi_disable() should be illegal in ndo_tx_timeout().
> > > > Here is a patch which moves most of the timeout work to a workqueue,
> > > > similarly to tg3 etc. It should prevent at least one of reported
> > > > bugs. Alas I can't even check-compile it at the moment, so let me
> > > > know on any problems.
> > > It seems I needlessly changed locking btw, so here it is again.
> > Hmm... On the other hand, it definitely needs at least _bh now...
> I've tried this patch. There are lots of "Transmit timed out", but no
> crashes.

ACK. Looks like you guys tracked down the crashing and fixed it (thanks!).
I suspect we shouldn't have to reset due to timeouts that often, but that's
another story.

Roger

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-22 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20091219111206.GA5307@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain>
     [not found] ` <20091220200343.GA5427@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain>
2009-12-21 12:03   ` via_rhine kernel crashes in 2.6.32 Christian Kujau
2009-12-21 12:36     ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-12-21 18:18     ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-12-21 19:32       ` Christian Kujau
2009-12-22 12:32         ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-22 13:21           ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-22 13:38             ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-22 15:00               ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-12-22 15:26                 ` Roger Luethi [this message]
2009-12-22 17:36                   ` [PATCH] net/via-rhine: Fix scheduling while atomic bugs Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-24  5:54                     ` David Miller
2009-12-23  9:52                   ` via_rhine kernel crashes in 2.6.32 Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-23 16:21                     ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-12-23 16:30                       ` Jarek Poplawski

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