Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sungem hangs in atomic if netconsole enabled but no carrier | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:59:14 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 23:19 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> net/core/netpoll.c::netpoll_send_skb() notices that the queue is stopped > and decides to try the usual NAPI poll(). A few function calls later, the > driver ends in drivers/net/sungem.c::gem_poll() where it takes so many > (irq-)locks that I do not even want to verify that it has a chance > to play nice with the pending gem_link_timer().
I'm not fan of the locking in sungem, I think I wrote a big fat comment about it and why it is like that for now, better ideas are welcome :)
Ben.
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