netdev - Re: [PATCH] skge: fix occasional BUG during MTU change

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Date:	Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:08:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	mschmidt@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skge: fix occasional BUG during MTU change

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 16:06:21 -0700

> On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:01:52 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
>> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:36:23 +0200
>> 
>> > The BUG_ON(skge->tx_ring.to_use != skge->tx_ring.to_clean) in skge_up()
>> > was sometimes observed when setting MTU.
>> > 
>> > skge_down() disables the TX queue, but then reenables it by mistake via
>> > skge_tx_clean().
>> > Fix it by moving the waking of the queue from skge_tx_clean() to the
>> > other caller. And to make sure start_xmit is not in progress on another
>> > CPU, skge_down() should call netif_tx_disable().
>> > 
>> > The bug was reported to me by Jiri Jilek whose Debian system sometimes
>> > failed to boot. He tested the patch and the bug did not happen anymore.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
>> 
>> Stephen, an ACK possibly?
> 
> I wanted to test on real hardware, and am offsite this week.

Ok, I'll wait for that, thanks!
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