Hello, Please, ignore 1st patch for now.
Although it fixes the problem observed it looks like there is a better and easier solution (many thanks to Intel Guys that explained e1000 operation in details: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAGHCxhcad%3Dzx7ihX5zoDB%3DZOLGGuZty%3DBck6zSoMQ-9S3ZJo7w%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=e1000-devel). We'll submit the final patch soon. Dmitry. On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Dmitry Fleytman <dmi...@daynix.com> wrote: > Following patches fix a few race conditions in E1000 code: > > 1st patch fixes race condition between driver shutdown and device shutdown > (see patch comment) > It also work-arounds race condition in e1000 Linux driver between RX enable > and RX rings init > (Separate patch for the second problem sent to e1000-devel/linux/kernel and > accepted by maintainers, see > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1350280341.2152.12.camel%40jtkirshe-mobl&forum_name=e1000-devel) > > 2nd patch is pretty trivial and adds forgotten field into live migration > list thus fixing another race condition. > > Dmitry Fleytman (2): > Fix a race condition in E1000 device implementation: > Fix a race condition in E1000 device live migration. One of > data-transfer related flags not in migrated fields list. > > hw/e1000.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.7.11.4 > -- Dmitry Fleytman Technology Expert and Consultant, Daynix Computing Ltd. Cell: +972-54-2819481 Skype: dmitry.fleytman
