From: bgat@billgatliff•com (Bill Gatliff)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: smsc911x.c driver and SMP (was Re: Kernel related (?) user space crash at ARM11 MPCore)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:55:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AAA48CA.9040405@billgatliff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252660898.3354.16.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Catalin Marinas wrote:
> (sorry for the repost Antti, the message was sent to the old list and
> didn't like the "was:" stuff in the subject and the reply headers)
>
> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 00:05 +0300, Antti P Miettinen wrote:
>
>> BTW - the smsc911x does not work for me in the
>> recent kernels. I had to change back to smc911x. Otherwise my boot
>> from NFS root hangs pretty early. I think it used to be the other way
>> around in some kernel version.
>>
>
> I added the commit below to my tree and the new driver now seems to work
> fine with ARM11MPCore systems:
>
> http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=246a6cc1f1fa52e96a08f327337c5616eb634825
>
> I'm waiting for the SMSC guys to look into this issue. It may just be
> that some of the read-after-write or read-after-read timing constraints
> are violated when more than one CPU tries to access the Ethernet chip.
>
>
Why take the lock in smsc911x_tx_writefifo? It looks like you take the
same lock again in smsc911x_reg_write.
b.g.
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Bill Gatliff
bgat at billgatliff.com
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2009-08-29 12:27 ` Kernel related (?) user space crash at ARM11 MPCore Catalin Marinas
2009-08-31 8:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-07 15:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-07 15:56 ` Dirk Behme
2009-09-07 16:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-07 17:31 ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-09-07 21:40 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-03 11:58 ` Dirk Behme
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2009-09-20 9:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-20 19:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-20 22:46 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 8:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-21 8:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-21 9:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-21 10:08 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 8:49 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 8:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-21 9:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 10:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-21 10:42 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 20:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-21 21:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-21 22:14 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 22:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-22 8:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 21:58 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 22:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-21 22:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-21 22:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 21:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-21 22:28 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-21 22:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-21 22:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-22 9:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-22 10:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-22 17:17 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-23 6:03 ` Dirk Behme
2009-09-23 9:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-23 10:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-23 12:12 ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-09-23 12:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-23 12:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-23 12:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-10-15 14:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-10-15 15:20 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-10-15 15:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-10-15 15:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-10-20 11:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-10-25 13:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-10-26 18:40 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-10-25 14:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-10-26 18:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-10-26 19:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-10-15 15:48 ` Dirk Behme
2009-10-15 15:53 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-10-25 13:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-10-26 18:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-20 22:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-22 5:44 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2009-09-22 9:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-22 9:34 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
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2009-09-11 9:21 ` smsc911x.c driver and SMP (was Re: Kernel related (?) user space crash at ARM11 MPCore) Catalin Marinas
2009-09-11 12:55 ` Bill Gatliff [this message]
2009-09-11 13:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-09-11 15:20 ` Bill Gatliff
2009-09-11 16:06 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-10-06 6:12 ` smsc911x.c driver and SMP Antti P Miettinen
2010-08-31 0:07 ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2010-08-31 6:22 ` Antti P Miettinen
2010-08-31 9:10 ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2010-08-31 8:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-08-31 8:42 ` Shinya Kuribayashi
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