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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jarkao2@gmail.com
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, mikem@ring3k.org, flyboy@gmail.com,
	rjw@sisk.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:08:04 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100112.000804.186755338.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100112075059.GA6628@ff.dom.local>

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:50:59 +0000

> I think, I can see similar problems e.g. in gianfar or netxen, where
> napi_disable() is done after netif_device_detach(), especially in
> suspend procedures (there might be less severe (than oops) effects
> yet). IMHO, it all looks simply error prone (sometime you have to
> know a driver well to track all possible paths to say it's really
> safe).

Then that's an even larger bug.

Until you do napi_disable(), the device can be touched.

Asynchronous paths outside of the driver's control, even
with interrupts disabled, can call back into the driver
and touch the chip.

F.e. netpoll via netconsole output on another cpu

So it therefore must be done before doing the actual work of bringing
the device down or suspending it.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-12  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-10 22:27 2.6.33-rc3-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-10 22:32 ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11  0:36   ` Berck E. Nash
2010-01-11 13:26     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 19:32       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11 20:31         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 20:50           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11 21:02           ` Berck E. Nash
2010-01-11 21:47             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 14:03     ` Mike McCormack
2010-01-11 16:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-11 22:07         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12  0:14           ` David Miller
2010-01-12  7:50             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12  8:08               ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-12  8:56                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12  9:42                   ` David Miller
2010-01-12 10:31                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 10:56                     ` David Miller
2010-01-12 11:04                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 15:39                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 16:15                       ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 16:32                         ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 17:02                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 18:04                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 18:13                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 18:24                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 18:49                               ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v2) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:16                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 19:23                                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:50                                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-13  1:23                                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:34                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 18:35                         ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 18:42                           ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 20:31                             ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13  4:10                               ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v3) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-13  4:31                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13  7:35                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-13 16:04                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14  3:41                                   ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 10:14                                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 11:16                                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 11:20                                         ` David Miller
2010-01-14 11:26                                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 13:19                                             ` Mike McCormack
2010-01-14 15:43                                               ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 16:46                                               ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 17:51                                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 17:52                                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 23:51                                         ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-16 18:35                                           ` sky2 DHCPOFFER packet loss under load (Was Re: [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4)) Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 15:46                                     ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4) Michael Breuer
2010-01-11 22:31         ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 16:00 ` 2.6.33-rc3-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-01-11 21:47 ` Nick Bowler
2010-01-11 22:10   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
     [not found] ` <omZ8aBZReyD.A.rz.COlSLB@chimera>
2010-01-28 23:18   ` [PATCH net-2.6] cdc_ether: Partially revert "usbnet: Set link down initially ..." Ben Hutchings
2010-01-29  5:37     ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-29 15:05 2.6.33-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-12-29 15:10 ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Rafael J. Wysocki

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