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Message-Id: <200803272256.50454.rjw@sisk.pl> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:56:49 +0100 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, marcus@...ter.se, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10326] New: inconsistent lock state in net_rx_action On Thursday, 27 of March 2008, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:30:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > ... > > My guess is that it is a race between polling the device and irq pushing > > the packet. That is, normally the IRQ handler wins and netpoll doesn't > > have anything to do and it doesn't traverse this code path. > > > > (although I must admit to being a little out of my depth here) > > Probably you're right but there were really a lot of testing and > stressing netconsole for misterious lockups for quite a long time > with this new napi, so it's hard to believe this was hidden so > well... I assume there will be a patch posted for this issue. Correct? Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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