On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:23:05 -0800
Ben Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I may have found a deadlock bug in 2.6.18.2. This is
with my hacked kernel, but my binary module has not been loaded.
I have several bridges configured, including some containing
my redirect-device virtual
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
The bug is in r8139too.c driver. It calls flush_scheduled_work
with RTNL mutex held, so any other work using it will get stuck.
It looks like a fairly common problem, as tg3 has the same issue
(though it seems someone tried to hack around one particular case):
static
Ben Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
e1000 appears clean, at least, but there are a lot of other
drivers that are calling that method (I didn't check to see
if they might be holding rtnl when called.)
Not that lot: only r8169, sis190, s2io and cassini (through change_mtu).
Bad week.
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I think I may have found a deadlock bug in 2.6.18.2. This is
with my hacked kernel, but my binary module has not been loaded.
I have several bridges configured, including some containing
my redirect-device virtual devices and ethernet devices.
I believe the deadlock is this:
The work-queue
