Re: [patch] net: avoid race between netpoll and network fast path

2007-10-16 Thread Tina Yang
David Miller wrote: > From: Tina Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:45:04 -0700 > >> The current netpoll design and implementation has serveral race issues with >> the >> network fast path that panics/hangs the system or causes interface &

[patch] net: avoid race between netpoll and network fast path

2007-10-16 Thread Tina Yang
disable the problem code for normal operations but only to enable it at the time of crash in case polling is necessary. Tests that have been done included the bug fix verification as well as regression check on the netlog results in various crash modes. Signed-off-by: Tina Yang <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9124] New: Netconsole race crashed the system

2007-10-05 Thread Tina Yang
David Miller wrote: From: Tina Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:56:50 -0700 Yes, it's RHEL5 2.6.18-8. Attached is the 2.6.9-42 version that doesn't have 802.11 and crashed at the same spot - netdevice.h:888. Also crashed are 2.6.23-rc2 and rc4.

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9124] New: Netconsole race crashed the system

2007-10-04 Thread Tina Yang
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:27:04 -0700 Tina Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: (Please resoind by emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface) On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:24:18 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9124] New: Netconsole race crashed the system

2007-10-04 Thread Tina Yang
Andrew Morton wrote: (Please resoind by emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface) On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:24:18 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9124 Summary: Netconsole race crashed the system Product: Net

Re: netconsole problems

2007-10-04 Thread Tina Yang
Matt Mackall wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:59:38AM -0700, Tina Yang wrote: We recently run into a few problems with netconsole in at least 2.6.9, 2.6.18 and 2.6.23. It either panicked at netdevice.h:890 or hung the system, and sometimes depending on which NIC we are using, the following

netconsole problems

2007-10-04 Thread Tina Yang
We recently run into a few problems with netconsole in at least 2.6.9, 2.6.18 and 2.6.23. It either panicked at netdevice.h:890 or hung the system, and sometimes depending on which NIC we are using, the following console message, e1000: "e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang