Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-06-06 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Fusté <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Did you plan to submit the "spin_lock_irqsave" patch to mainline ? No. I will not have enough time to figure why/if it fixes things. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-30 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Fusté <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [..] > Could this bug fix from Stephen Hemminger be another track to follow ? > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118048588011069&w=2 > If you think so, I could give it a try whitout applying the > "spin_lock_irqsave" patch. You can apply it too but Stephen's

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Francois Romieu
Thomas Bogendoerfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > for normal interrupt delivery it doesn't matter, because there shouldn't > be any more interrupts coming in at that point. But netconsole uses > pcnet32_interrupt for polling the chip. So if during service of a > a real interrupt a polled pcnet32_in

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Francois Romieu
Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Hmm, I have been seeing lockups too and asked about doing something > almost exactly the same as this recently, but was told that it shouldn't > need irqs disabled at this point. Yes. The patch should not be needed. OTOH, it is still interesting to k

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Thomas Bogendoerfer
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 02:31:48PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:25:51PM +0200, Emmanuel Fust? wrote: > > > Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 > > > driver and you apply the patch below ? > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c b/dr

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:25:51PM +0200, Emmanuel Fust? wrote: > > Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 > > driver and you apply the patch below ? > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c > > index 9c171a7..be4513f 100644 > > --- a/drivers/net/

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-28 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
> Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 > driver and you apply the patch below ? > > diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c > index 9c171a7..be4513f 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c > +++ b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c > @@ -2556,11 +2556,12 @@ pcnet32_in

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-27 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Fusté <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Ok will try and report the result. > Thanks. Please: 1. don't top-post. 2. trim the quoted message to keep its relevant part. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-27 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Ok will try and report the result. Thanks. > Emmanuel Fusté <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [...] > > Just to let you know that I swap my pcnet32 with a via-rhine > > and I no longer experienced hard machine lock after loading > > netconsole. > > Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcn

Re: [PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-26 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Fusté <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Just to let you know that I swap my pcnet32 with a via-rhine > and I no longer experienced hard machine lock after loading > netconsole. Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 driver and you apply the patch below ? diff --git a

[PCNET32] Lock solid with netconsole

2007-05-26 Thread Emmanuel Fusté
Hello, Just to let you know that I swap my pcnet32 with a via-rhine and I no longer experienced hard machine lock after loading netconsole. Regards, Emmanuel. > Hello, > While trying to obtain scsi log to debug a driver problem, I > tried to use netconsole on an old smp system with a 10Mbits > p