linux-kernel - Re: Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash", (was: Re: Linux 2.6.29)

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Message-ID: <20090324143303.GP5367@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:33:03 +0100
From:	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Frank Blaschka <blaschka@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash", (was: Re:
	Linux 2.6.29)

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:02:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If the box hung within 15 minutes, the kernel was deemed bad. Using 
> that method i arrived to this upstream networking fix which was 
> merged yesterday:
> 
>  | 303c6a0251852ecbdc5c15e466dcaff5971f7517 is first bad commit
>  | commit 303c6a0251852ecbdc5c15e466dcaff5971f7517
>  | Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
>  | Date:   Tue Mar 17 13:11:29 2009 -0700
>  |
>  |     gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash

This commit breaks nfsroot booting on i.MX27 and other ARM boxes with
different network cards here in a reproducable way.

rsc
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