netdev - Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (2.6.18.2 plus hacks)

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:13:06 -0700
From:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	jarkao2@...pl, NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!  (2.6.18.2 plus hacks)

Ben,
        Here's a patch that I think will fix it, assuming the receive is 
on the
same device as the initialization. Can you try this out?

                                                +-DLS
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Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>

diff -ruNp linux-2.6.19.1/net/ipv4/devinet.c 
linux-2.6.19.1T1/net/ipv4/devinet.c
--- linux-2.6.19.1/net/ipv4/devinet.c   2006-12-11 11:32:53.000000000 
-0800
+++ linux-2.6.19.1T1/net/ipv4/devinet.c 2007-01-03 14:37:56.000000000 
-0800
@@ -165,9 +165,8 @@ struct in_device *inetdev_init(struct ne
                              NET_IPV4_NEIGH, "ipv4", NULL, NULL);
 #endif
 
-       /* Account for reference dev->ip_ptr */
+       /* Account for reference dev->ip_ptr (below) */
        in_dev_hold(in_dev);
-       rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip_ptr, in_dev);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
        devinet_sysctl_register(in_dev, &in_dev->cnf);
@@ -176,6 +175,8 @@ struct in_device *inetdev_init(struct ne
        if (dev->flags & IFF_UP)
                ip_mc_up(in_dev);
 out:
+       /* we can receive as soon as ip_ptr is set -- do this last */
+       rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip_ptr, in_dev);
        return in_dev;
 out_kfree:
        kfree(in_dev);
diff -ruNp linux-2.6.19.1/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 
linux-2.6.19.1T1/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
--- linux-2.6.19.1/net/ipv6/addrconf.c  2006-12-11 11:32:53.000000000 
-0800
+++ linux-2.6.19.1T1/net/ipv6/addrconf.c        2007-01-03 
14:47:07.000000000 -0800
@@ -413,8 +413,6 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(s
        if (netif_carrier_ok(dev))
                ndev->if_flags |= IF_READY;
 
-       /* protected by rtnl_lock */
-       rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev);
 
        ipv6_mc_init_dev(ndev);
        ndev->tstamp = jiffies;
@@ -425,6 +423,8 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(s
                              NULL);
        addrconf_sysctl_register(ndev, &ndev->cnf);
 #endif
+       /* protected by rtnl_lock */
+       rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev);
        return ndev;
 }
 

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