netdev - Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (2.6.18.2 plus hacks)

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:34:06 -0800
From:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	greearb@...delatech.com, jarkao2@...pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!  (2.6.18.2 plus hacks)

Herbert,
        You're right, I don't know whether it'll fix the problem Ben saw
or not, but it looks like the original code can do a receive before the
in_device is fully initialized, and that, of course, is bad.
        If the device for ip_rcv() is not the same one we were
initializing when the receive interrupted, then the patch should have
no effect either way -- I don't think it'll hide other problems.
        If it's hard to reproduce (which I guess is true), then you're
right, no soft lockup doesn't really tell us if it's fixed or not.

                                        +-DLS

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