We noticed a few hangs like this: INFO: task ifconfig:572 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. ifconfig D 0ff65760 0 572 369 0x00000000 Call Trace: [c6157be0] [c6008460] 0xc6008460 (unreliable) [c6157ca0] [c0008608] __switch_to+0x4c/0x6c [c6157cb0] [c028fecc] schedule+0x184/0x310 [c6157ce0] [c0290e54] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xa4/0x150 [c6157d20] [c0290c48] mutex_lock+0x44/0x48 [c6157d30] [c01aba74] phy_stop+0x20/0x70 [c6157d40] [c01aef40] ucc_geth_stop+0x30/0x98 [c6157d60] [c01b18fc] ucc_geth_close+0x9c/0xdc [c6157d80] [c01db0cc] __dev_close+0xa0/0xd0 [c6157d90] [c01deddc] __dev_change_flags+0x8c/0x148 [c6157db0] [c01def54] dev_change_flags+0x1c/0x64 [c6157dd0] [c0237ac8] devinet_ioctl+0x678/0x784 [c6157e50] [c0239a58] inet_ioctl+0xb0/0xbc [c6157e60] [c01cafa8] sock_ioctl+0x174/0x2a0 [c6157e80] [c009a16c] vfs_ioctl+0xcc/0xe0 [c6157ea0] [c009a998] do_vfs_ioctl+0xc4/0x79c [c6157f10] [c009b0b0] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x74 [c6157f40] [c00117c4] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
I THINK this is due to a missing cancel_work_sync in the driver although we cannot be sure. I found this by comparing ucc_geth with gianfar. Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@transmode.se> --- drivers/net/ucc_geth.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c b/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c index 97f9f7d..6647ed7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c @@ -3556,6 +3556,7 @@ static int ucc_geth_close(struct net_device *dev) napi_disable(&ugeth->napi); + cancel_work_sync(&ugeth->timeout_work); ucc_geth_stop(ugeth); free_irq(ugeth->ug_info->uf_info.irq, ugeth->ndev); -- 1.7.2.2 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev