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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat•com>
To: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, davem@davemloft•net,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netconsole: release the spinlock before __netpoll_cleanup()
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:51:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362581481.4435.23.camel@cr0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362581203-8994-1-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 15:46 +0100, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> Commit 3335f0ca130c201f8680e97f63612053fbc16e22 removed spinlock unlocking
> before __netpoll_cleanup() in netconsole_netdev_event(), however we still
> might sleep in __netpoll_cleanup() - via synchronize_srcu(). Revert it and
> add a comment.
> 

synchronize_srcu() was actually introduced by Neil:

commit ca99ca14c95ae49fb4c9cd3abf5f84d11a7e8a61
Author: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver•com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 08:05:43 2013 +0000

    netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|
close]

Cc'ing him.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-06 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-06 14:46 [PATCH] netconsole: release the spinlock before __netpoll_cleanup() Veaceslav Falico
2013-03-06 14:51 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2013-03-07  0:08 ` Neil Horman
2013-03-07 10:03   ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-03-07 14:43     ` Neil Horman
2013-03-07 21:14     ` David Miller
2013-03-10 15:25       ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-03-11 10:08         ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-03-11 11:30           ` Neil Horman
2013-03-11 11:39             ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-03-11 17:58               ` Neil Horman

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