From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:47:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930184722.GD6364@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC3A0F1.3060306@hartkopp.net>
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:18:25PM +0200, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> Socket buffers that are generated and received inside softirqs or from process
> context must not use netif_rx() that's intended to be used from irq context only.
>
> This patch introduces a new helper function netif_rx_ti(skb) that tests for
> in_interrupt() before invoking netif_rx() or netif_rx_ni().
>
> It fixes the ratelimited kernel warning
>
> NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
>
> in the mac80211 and can subsystems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14278
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 14:48 mac80211: NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08 Michael Buesch
2009-09-11 14:57 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-11 15:07 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-11 16:07 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-11 16:07 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-11 16:13 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-12 16:41 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-12 16:51 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-12 18:07 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-29 19:29 ` John W. Linville
2009-09-30 11:56 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-30 14:33 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-30 14:47 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-30 14:54 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-30 15:10 ` Michael Buesch
2009-09-30 15:21 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-30 17:51 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-30 18:18 ` [PATCH] net: fix " Oliver Hartkopp
2009-09-30 18:47 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-09-30 23:33 ` David Miller
2009-10-01 7:08 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-10-01 14:04 ` Michael Buesch
2009-10-01 14:24 ` Kalle Valo
2009-10-01 18:42 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-01 19:10 ` Michael Buesch
2009-10-01 19:26 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-01 19:32 ` David Miller
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