Re: Resending: RT patches expose netdev race [was Re: [RFC] [patch 2/2] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: fix kernel hang and/or panic

2007-05-17 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:49:45AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I do not know why sk_buff-head would be null, or would be set in a racy kind of way, or why the rt patches would cause this. But the evidence implicates that. Would it be possible that a locking bug in spidernet

Resending: RT patches expose netdev race [was Re: [RFC] [patch 2/2] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: fix kernel hang and/or panic

2007-05-16 Thread Linas Vepstas
(resending , Owa-san was cut from cc list!??) Hi, On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:09:02PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:47 +0900, Tsutomu OWA wrote: I encountered the following error when doing netperf from other machine to Celleb running RT kernel.

Re: Resending: RT patches expose netdev race [was Re: [RFC] [patch 2/2] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: fix kernel hang and/or panic

2007-05-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I do not know why sk_buff-head would be null, or would be set in a racy kind of way, or why the rt patches would cause this. But the evidence implicates that. Would it be possible that a locking bug in spidernet would cause it under some circumstances to get a stale skb pointer ? Ben. - To