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Re: Lockup with 2.6.9-ac15 related to netconsole

To: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Lockup with 2.6.9-ac15 related to netconsole
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:34:35 +0100
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Broadbent <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Francois Romieu wrote:
Marc, if the patch below happens to work, it should not drop messages
like the previous one (it is an ugly short-term suggestion).


-       spin_lock(&np->dev->xmit_lock);
+       while (!spin_trylock(&np->dev->xmit_lock)) {
+               if (np->dev->xmit_lock_owner == smp_processor_id()) {
+                       struct Qdisc *q = dev->qdisc;
+
+                       q->ops->enqueue(skb, q);

Shouldn't this be requeue ?

Regards
Patrick

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