Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Netconsole & sungem: hang when link down | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:16:45 +1000 |
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On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 16:39, Colin Leroy wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that, if you have netconsole set up and using a sungem card, > and if the network cable is not plugged in, that the whole kernel hangs > shortly after the "device not up yet, forcing it" netconsole > message. I suspect this is due to the autoneg in sungem, but didn't have > time to look further. > > Would you have any hints on the cause of this problem?
Not sure, I suppose the driver is doing printk's with spinlocks held from the autoneg stuff and there is a spinlock deadlock happening ...
Ben.
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