netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] via-rhine: Fix hanging with high CPU load on low-end broads.

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Date:	Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:19:33 +0100
From:	Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@...too.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	romieu@...zoreil.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rl@...lgate.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] via-rhine: Fix hanging with high CPU load on low-end broads.

2011/12/29 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:
> From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:39:02 +0100
>
>> Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> :
>> [...]
>>> Feel free to try the extra "new year's eve week end is getting closer"
>>> patch below (against net-next).
>>>
>>> You have been warned.
>>
>> The one below could be a bit better.
>
> Obviously you'll need to resolve the use of rp->lock as an IRQ safe lock
> in {get,src}_wol() so that this lock is consistently used as a BH safe
> lock.  Your "Huh?" comments make it clear you are aware of this TODO. :-)
>
> But other than that this patch looks good to me, just some testing and
> debugging are needed.

I got it to boot, had to revert another patch introduced in 3.1.5
that's causing alot of people problems, but thats another talk :)

It boots fine, untill it tries to bring up an interface, which causes
it to fails with a kernel panic.
Here is the output of the panic:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~gurligebis/kernel/panic.txt

/Bjarke

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