On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 09:38 +0100, Steffen Rumler wrote: > I'm using a 2.4.20 kernel (PPC). > > When I run multiple 'ping -f' directed to my board > during the kernel boots, sometimes it hangs with > the following messages:
> I have checked this with the BDI2000 and found that the > kernel loops anywhere inside ip_route_input(). This is a long-standing bug in the cpm and cmp2 drivers. I think it's also present in 2.6 as far as I remember. I sent my own fix some time ago, you may find it in the archives as "[patch] Race condition #2 in arch/ppc/cpm2_io/fcc_enet.c". Greetings, -- Stefan Nickl Kontron Modular Computers -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fcc_enet-mdio_race.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 412 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20050112/56de0db6/attachment.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fcc_enet-startup_race.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 969 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20050112/56de0db6/attachment-0001.bin