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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] net, 8139too.c: fix netpoll deadlock
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:12:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061213011231.GA6361@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061212214939.GA470@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>


* Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> wrote:

> > (I'll queue it, if Linus doesn't pick it up; please CC me in the 
> > future)
> 
> I have lived with the "NAPI ->poll() handler runs in BH irq enabled 
> context" rule for years. Is it definitely false/dead ?
> 
> If so at least 8139cp needs the same fix.

hm, this isnt really about NAPI polling, but about the 
netconsole/netpoll/netdump poll_controller() handler.

with netconsole, printk can be called from IRQ context (and is 
frequently from IRQ context during bootup or module initialization), so 
a BH rule isnt enough for them.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-13  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-12 10:16 [patch] netpoll: fix netpoll lockups Ingo Molnar
2006-12-12 12:49 ` [patch] net, 8139too.c: fix netpoll deadlock Ingo Molnar
2006-12-12 13:28   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-12 21:49     ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-13  1:12       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-02-14  2:30         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-02-16  4:33           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-12 16:13 ` [patch] netpoll: fix netpoll lockups Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 16:20   ` [patch] netpoll: fix netpoll lockup Ingo Molnar
2006-12-12 21:00     ` Herbert Xu

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