Subject: Re: [PATCH] igmp: spin_lock_bh in timer (Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!)

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:48:40 +0100

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:13:08AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> [PATCH] igmp: spin_lock_bh in timer
> 
> igmp_timer_expire() uses spin_lock(&im->lock)
> but this lock is also taken by other igmp timers,
> so it should be changed to bh version.

... but according to theory this doesn't matter.
I was suggested by this other timers, which
probably use _bh unnecessarily.

Sorry for confusion - I withdraw this patch.

Jarek P.