linux-kernel - Re: via_rhine kernel crashes in 2.6.32

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Message-ID: <20091222150045.GA5355@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain>
Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:00:45 +0500
From:	Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@...linux.org>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roger Luethi <rl@...lgate.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: via_rhine kernel crashes in 2.6.32

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:38:17PM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > > It looks like napi_disable() should be illegal in ndo_tx_timeout().
> > > Here is a patch which moves most of the timeout work to a workqueue,
> > > similarly to tg3 etc. It should prevent at least one of reported
> > > bugs. Alas I can't even check-compile it at the moment, so let me
> > > know on any problems.
> > It seems I needlessly changed locking btw, so here it is again.
> Hmm... On the other hand, it definitely needs at least _bh now...
I've tried this patch. There are lots of "Transmit timed out", but no
crashes.

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