Re: 2.2.14pre17 hangup with SMP during ifconfig

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 3 Jan 2000 02:21:01 +0200

> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > [..] Swapping the disable_irq for a disable_irq_nosync
> >will probably fix it. [..]
>
> If so probably the real problem is elsewhere...

The driver is holding a private lock in a deadlock loop with the irq lock it
seems. So using nosync is fine as the irq handler takes the lock

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