> > Tried to figure out what is causing the delays I experienced when I replaced
> > module_init() in af_inet.c with fs_initcall(). After all it turned out that
> > synchronize_net() which is basicically nothing else than synchronize_rcu()
> > sometimes takes several seconds to complete?! No idea w
> > As spinlock debugging still does not work with the qeth driver I
> > want to pick up the discussion.
>
> Does something like the patch below work?
>
> But this all begs the question, what happens if you want to
> dig into the internals of a protocol which is built modular and
> hasn't been lo
From: Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:45:48 +0200
> As spinlock debugging still does not work with the qeth driver I
> want to pick up the discussion.
Does something like the patch below work?
But this all begs the question, what happens if you want to
dig int
As spinlock debugging still does not work with the qeth driver I want to pick
up the discussion.
On Saturday 08 April 2006 12:12, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> > -vmlinux-main := $(core-y) $(libs-y) $(drivers-y) $(net-y)
> > +vmlinux-main := $(core-y)
> > callchain: inet_init() -> inet_register_protosw() -> synchronize_net()
>
> The problem can't be rcu_init(), that gets done very early
> in init/main.c
>
> Maybe it's some timer or something else specific to s390?
>
> It could also be that there's perhaps nothing to context
> switch to, thus
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:27:45 +0200
> Tried to figure out what is causing the delays I experienced when I replaced
> module_init() in af_inet.c with fs_initcall(). After all it turned out that
> synchronize_net() which is basicically nothing else than syn
> > Ok, so the problem seems to be that inet_init gets called after qeth_init.
> > Looking at the top level Makefile this seems to be true for all network
> > drivers in drivers/net/ and drivers/s390/net/ since we have
> >
> > vmlinux-main := $(core-y) $(libs-y) $(drivers-y) $(net-y)
> >
> > The
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 03:14:04AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Perhaps fs_initcall() would work better. Or if that causes
> problems we could create a net_initcall() that sits between
> fs_initcall() and device_initcall().
fs_initcall() seems to be used mainly for "init after subsystem" stu
> We could make inet_init() a subsystem init but I vaguely recall
> that we were doing that at one point and it broke things for
> some reason.
>
> Perhaps fs_initcall() would work better. Or if that causes
> problems we could create a net_initcall() that sits between
> fs_initcall() and device_i
Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ok, so the problem seems to be that inet_init gets called after qeth_init.
> Looking at the top level Makefile this seems to be true for all network
> drivers in drivers/net/ and drivers/s390/net/ since we have
>
> vmlinux-main := $(core-y) $(libs-y
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:02:13 +0200
> Ok, so the problem seems to be that inet_init gets called after qeth_init.
> Looking at the top level Makefile this seems to be true for all network
> drivers in drivers/net/ and drivers/s390/net/ since we have
>
> vm
> > The qeth driver makes use of the arp_tbl rw lock. CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> > detects that this lock is not initialized as it is supposed to be.
>
> This is a initialization order problem then, because:
> arp_init
> neigh_table_init
> rwlock_init
>
> does the initial
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:15:33 +0200
> From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The qeth driver makes use of the arp_tbl rw lock. CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> detects that this lock is not initialized as it is supposed to be.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carst
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:15:33 +0200
Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The qeth driver makes use of the arp_tbl rw lock. CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> detects that this lock is not initialized as it is supposed to be.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carsten
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The qeth driver makes use of the arp_tbl rw lock. CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
detects that this lock is not initialized as it is supposed to be.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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