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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:53:25 +0000
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Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le dimanche 15 aou^t 2010 a` 12:55 +0200, Eric Dumazet a =E9crit :
=2E..
> [PATCH] netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: avoid lockdep false positive
>=20
> After commit 24b36f019 (netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: dont block
> bottom half more than necessary), lockdep can raise a warning
> because we attempt to lock a spinlock with BH enabled, while
> the same lock is usually locked by another cpu in a softirq context.

Btw, could you remind us how get_counters() are serialized (I guess
you can't have them on 2 cpus at the same time)?

Thanks,
Jarek P.