Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-06-06 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Fusté [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Did you plan to submit the spin_lock_irqsave patch to mainline ? No. I will not have enough time to figure why/if it fixes things. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-30 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Fusté [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [..] Could this bug fix from Stephen Hemminger be another track to follow ? http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=118048588011069w=2 If you think so, I could give it a try whitout applying the spin_lock_irqsave patch. You can apply it too but Stephen's patch

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 driver and you apply the patch below ? diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c index 9c171a7..be4513f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c +++ b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c @@ -2556,11 +2556,12 @@

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:25:51PM +0200, Emmanuel Fust? wrote: Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 driver and you apply the patch below ? diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c index 9c171a7..be4513f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Thomas Bogendoerfer
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 02:31:48PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:25:51PM +0200, Emmanuel Fust? wrote: Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 driver and you apply the patch below ? diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Francois Romieu
Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Hmm, I have been seeing lockups too and asked about doing something almost exactly the same as this recently, but was told that it shouldn't need irqs disabled at this point. Yes. The patch should not be needed. OTOH, it is still interesting to know

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Francois Romieu
Thomas Bogendoerfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] for normal interrupt delivery it doesn't matter, because there shouldn't be any more interrupts coming in at that point. But netconsole uses pcnet32_interrupt for polling the chip. So if during service of a a real interrupt a polled

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-27 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Fusté [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Ok will try and report the result. Thanks. Please: 1. don't top-post. 2. trim the quoted message to keep its relevant part. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-27 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Ok will try and report the result. Thanks. Emmanuel Fusté [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Just to let you know that I swap my pcnet32 with a via-rhine and I no longer experienced hard machine lock after loading netconsole. Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32

[PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-26 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Hello, Just to let you know that I swap my pcnet32 with a via-rhine and I no longer experienced hard machine lock after loading netconsole. Regards, Emmanuel. Hello, While trying to obtain scsi log to debug a driver problem, I tried to use netconsole on an old smp system with a 10Mbits

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-26 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Fusté [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Just to let you know that I swap my pcnet32 with a via-rhine and I no longer experienced hard machine lock after loading netconsole. Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 driver and you apply the patch below ? diff --git