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SubjectRe: [Bug #42707] Hang deconfiguring network interface (in shutdown) on 3.3-rc1
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 05:44:34PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 23:55 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a summary report
> > of recent regressions.
> >
> > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> > from 3.2. Please verify if it still should be listed and let the tracking team
> > know (either way).
> >
> >
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42707
> > Subject : Hang deconfiguring network interface (in shutdown) on 3.3-rc1
> > Submitter : James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
> > Date : 2012-01-28 19:56 (27 days old)
> > Message-ID : <1327780565.2924.24.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com>
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132778076214873&w=2
>
> Still present in 3.3-rc4; I've bisected it back to this commit:
>
> commit 92feeabf3f673767c6ee4cfc7fc224098446c1c1
> Author: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
> Date: Thu Dec 8 14:40:14 2011 +0000
>
> tg3: Save stats across chip resets
>
> and sure enough, just reverting this single commit on 3.3-rc4 fixes the
> problem.
>
> James

I don't see anything incorrect about the patch. I'm guessing the patch
just changes the timing somehow.

tg3_reset_chip() does not take any driver-internal spinlocks. That
happens at tg3_close(). I'm guessing the spinlock in the trace is coming
from synchronize_irq().



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