Hiya folks
I'm trying to get a feel of notifier_call_chain(), but with no luck.
This is basically what I've done.
On 2.4.21, I've added dev_sample() function which I've declared and
implemented in include/linux/netdevice.h and net/core/dev.c
respectively.
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int dev_sample(struct net_device *dev)
{
notifier_call_chain(&netdev_chain, NETDEV_SAMPLE, dev);
return 0;
}
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Of course, I've defined NETDEV_SAMPLE in include/linux/notifier.h
Now up to this stage, its fine. Problem is when I try to call
dev_sample() from driver/net/natsemi.c (my network device driver).
natsemi.c has check_link function which runs periodically and checks
to see if cable is out. So I've placed my dev_sample() in this
function and have it called whenever status of cable changes. But as
soon as the status change, machine dies with "alloc_skb called
nonatomically from interrupt c00ba700", with some printk's I was able
to find out notifier_call_chain() was getting called. But it happens
when it traverses the &netdev_chain. (at the very first one in fact)
I've tried wrapping the dev_sample() with rtnl_lock and unlock but
with no luck. It looks to me its to do with accessing resource at a
wrong time, but I have no idea where to go from here.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Cheers,
--
Daniel
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