Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll

From: Olaf Kirch
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 08:56:45 EST


On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:52, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2007 12:58, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i.e. it's the classic 'eth0 got stuck somehow' tx/rx state machine
> > hickup symptoms, with no other bad symptoms such as lockups or crashes.
>
> Duh, I found it.

The following patch should confirm my theory. Can you give it a try,
please?

Olaf
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Index: build-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
===================================================================
--- build-2.6.orig/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ build-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ e1000_irq_enable(struct e1000_adapter *a
E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, IMS, IMS_ENABLE_MASK);
E1000_WRITE_FLUSH(&adapter->hw);
}
+ BUG_ON(atomic_read(&adapter->irq_sem) < 0);
}

static void

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