Re: [PATCH] [ISDN] Fix random hard freeze with AVM c4 card

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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:07:44 +0200
Karsten Keil <[email protected]> wrote:

> The patch
> - Includes the call to capilib_data_b3_req in the spinlock. This routine
>   in turn calls the offending mq_enqueue routine that triggered the
>   freeze if not locked.  This should also fix other indicators of
>   incosistent capilib_msgidqueue list, that trigger messages like:
>   Oct  5 03:05:57 BERL0 kernel: kcapi: msgid 3019 ncci 0x30301 not on queue
>   that we saw several times a day (usually several in a row).
> - Fixes all occurrences of c4_dispatch_tx to be called with active
>   spinlock, there were some instances where no lock was active. Mostly
>   these are in very infrequently called routines, so the additional
>   performance penalty is minimal.

I've tagged this patch and "[ISDN] fix random freezes with AVM B1 drivers"
as suitable for backporting into 2.6.23.x.  Please let me know if that was
not appropriate.
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