From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754244AbZBIW7T (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:59:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751682AbZBIW67 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:58:59 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43505 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751235AbZBIW66 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:58:58 -0500 Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:58:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090209.145852.156568866.davem@davemloft.net> To: jarkao2@gmail.com Cc: jeff@garzik.org, iws@ovro.caltech.edu, jacmet@sunsite.dk, dai.haruki@freescale.com, afleming@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net] gianfar: Fix boot hangs while bringing up gianfar ethernet From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090209193440.GA2537@ami.dom.local> References: <20090207225555.GA2680@ami.dom.local> <20090209172216.GA11312@ovro.caltech.edu> <20090209193440.GA2537@ami.dom.local> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jarek Poplawski Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:34:40 +0100 > gianfar: Fix boot hangs while bringing up gianfar ethernet > > Ira Snyder found that commit 8c7396aebb68994c0519e438eecdf4d5fa9c7844 > "gianfar: Merge Tx and Rx interrupt for scheduling clean up ring" can > cause hangs. It's because there was removed clearing of interrupts in > gfar_schedule_cleanup() (which is called by an interrupt handler) in > case when netif scheduling has been disabled. This patch brings back > this action and a comment. > > Reported-by: Ira Snyder > Reported-by: Peter Korsgaard > Bisected-by: Ira Snyder > Tested-by: Peter Korsgaard > Tested-by: Ira Snyder > Signed-by: Jarek Poplawski Applied, thanks everyone.