Re: 2.2.14pre17 hangup with SMP during ifconfig

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 3 Jan 2000 02:32:01 +0200


On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

>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

So they are holding the private spinlock before disabling interrupts.
That's the real bug.

Andrea

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