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Mahesh Bandewar says: ==================== link-status fixes for mii-monitoring The mii monitoring is divided into two phases - inspect and commit. The inspect phase technically should not make any changes to the state and defer it to the commit phase. However detected link state inconsistencies on several machines and discovered that it's the result of some inconsistent update to link states and assumption that you *always* get rtnl-mutex. In reality when trylock() fails to acquire rtnl-mutex, the commit phase is postponed until next mii-mon run. At the next round because of the state change performed in the previous inspect-run, this round does not detect any changes and would skip calling commit phase. This would result in an inconsistent state until next link event happens (if it ever happens). During the the commit phase, it's always assumed that speed and duplex fetch is always successful, but that's always not the case. However the slave state is marked UP irrespective of speed / duplex fetch operation. If the speed / duplex fetch operation results in insane values for either of these two fields, then keeping internal link state UP is not going to provide fruitful results either. Please see into individual patches for more details. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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