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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: fedor@karpelevitch.net, abz@frogfoot.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possibly bug in 8139cp? (WAS Re: BUG: 2.4.23-pre3 + ifconfig)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:09:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030908170902.66f85c38.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F5D17EA.4010502@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > diff -puN include/linux/netdevice.h~ifdown-lockup-fix include/linux/netdevice.h
> > --- 25/include/linux/netdevice.h~ifdown-lockup-fix	Mon Sep  8 13:20:28 2003
> > +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/netdevice.h	Mon Sep  8 13:20:34 2003
> > @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ static inline void netif_rx_complete(str
> >  
> >  static inline void netif_poll_disable(struct net_device *dev)
> >  {
> > -	while (test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED, &dev->state)) {
> > +	while (test_bit(__LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED, &dev->state)) {
> >  		/* No hurry. */
> >  		current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
> >  		schedule_timeout(1);
> > 
> 
> 
> no that breaks other things.
> 

The only thing it can break is tg3, which appears to be placing a competing
interpretation upon the handling of this flag.

Given that tg3_netif_stop() will set __LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED and dev_close()
will then loop on it getting cleared again there appears to be a risk that
a dev_close() against tg3 will lock up.

It's all very unclear.  And uncommented, but that is experientially the
same thing :(


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-09  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-04 18:05 BUG: 2.4.23-pre3 + ifconfig Abraham van der Merwe
     [not found] ` <200309071217.03470.fedor@karpelevitch.net>
2003-09-07 19:15   ` Abraham van der Merwe
     [not found]     ` <200309080943.26254.fedor@karpelevitch.net>
2003-09-08 16:46       ` possibly bug in 8139cp? (WAS Re: BUG: 2.4.23-pre3 + ifconfig) Abraham van der Merwe
2003-09-08 17:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 20:32         ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-08 23:59           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-09  0:09             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-09-09  0:41               ` Jeff Garzik

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