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SubjectRe: Tulip (DFE-570tx) & keyboard lockup in 2.6.9 and other 2.6 kernels.
Ben Greear wrote:
> I finally had some time to debug this one a little more
> thoroughly. On two different machines (Shuttle SB61G1) I
> get the same results, so I do not believe it is bad hardware...
>
> The bug is as follows:
>
> I have 1 4-port tulip NIC in the machine. If I generate traffic
> between two interfaces, it runs fine. But, if I start running traffic
> on all 4 interfaces, the keyboard quits taking input, and ethernet
> traffic stops on at least a few of the interfaces. I can still ssh
> into the machine (via the rtl8139 interface), so at least one of the
> processors (I'm using SMP on an P4 HT processor) is working. I also
> enabled NMI and that does not trigger.

This was my bug. I was holding a lock that was required for receiving a packet
while calling the hard_start_xmit method. When an IRQ happened while I was in
the hard_start_xmit method, the IRQ could not grab the lock, and just sat there
spinning...

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com

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