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Message-ID: <20070720094547.GA664@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:45:47 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@...cle.com>
Cc:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll


* Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@...cle.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 19 July 2007 21:56, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > nope - with this patch applied the box still has no network, symptoms 
> > are similar. (should i apply the WARN_ON() patch too?)
> 
> Yes, that would be nice. If that doesn't help, you can also throw in
> the one below.

> -	np->dev = ndev;
>  	if (!ndev->npinfo) {
>  		npinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*npinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!npinfo) {
> @@ -722,6 +721,8 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	np->dev = ndev;

no change in behavior from this patch. If i add the WARN_ON() it 
triggers once and it makes the network work as well (probably due to the 
side-effect of the packets generated by the WARN_ON() printks).

	Ingo
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