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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Lockup with 2.6.9-ac15 related to netconsole
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:34:35 +0100
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Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Mark Broadbent <markb@wetlettuce.com>,
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To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
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Francois Romieu wrote:
> Marc, if the patch below happens to work, it should not drop messages
> like the previous one (it is an ugly short-term suggestion).
> 

> -	spin_lock(&np->dev->xmit_lock);
> +	while (!spin_trylock(&np->dev->xmit_lock)) {
> +		if (np->dev->xmit_lock_owner == smp_processor_id()) {
> +			struct Qdisc *q = dev->qdisc;
> +
> +			q->ops->enqueue(skb, q);

Shouldn't this be requeue ?

Regards
Patrick