Russell Steinthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Again, here's the networking section of .config; the full .config is > available at http://www.steinthal.us/kernel/config-2.6.15-rc7
$ grep -E 'CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK|CONFIG_PREEMPT|CONFIG_SMP' config-2.6.15-rc7 # CONFIG_SMP is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT=y CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y # CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set # CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP is not set Welcome in 2006 :o| [...] > See excerpt above or full logs at http://www.steinthal.us/kernel/ > > > r8169.o module could help. > > I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean by this, but on the off > chance that you were asking for it, I've also put a copy of my r8169.ko > at http://www.steinthal.us/kernel/r8169.ko. Exactly. Thank you. > If there's anything else you need, please let me know. Thanks for your > help! Can you try and report two things: - apply the patch below with your current config and carefully install/test; - if it does not work better, enable CONFIG_SMP with/without CONFIG_PREEMPT. diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock_api_up.h b/include/linux/spinlock_api_up.h index cd81cee..94e243f 100644 --- a/include/linux/spinlock_api_up.h +++ b/include/linux/spinlock_api_up.h @@ -37,16 +37,16 @@ do { local_irq_save(flags); __LOCK(lock); } while (0) #define __UNLOCK(lock) \ - do { preempt_enable(); __release(lock); (void)(lock); } while (0) + do { __release(lock); preempt_enable(); (void)(lock); } while (0) #define __UNLOCK_BH(lock) \ do { preempt_enable_no_resched(); local_bh_enable(); __release(lock); (void)(lock); } while (0) #define __UNLOCK_IRQ(lock) \ - do { local_irq_enable(); __UNLOCK(lock); } while (0) + do { __UNLOCK(lock); local_irq_enable(); } while (0) #define __UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE(lock, flags) \ - do { local_irq_restore(flags); __UNLOCK(lock); } while (0) + do { __UNLOCK(lock); local_irq_restore(flags); } while (0) #define _spin_lock(lock) __LOCK(lock) #define _read_lock(lock) __LOCK(lock) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html