Re: [GIT] Networking

Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-16T09:53:31Z

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le dimanche 15 aou^t 2010 a` 12:55 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
...
> [PATCH] netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: avoid lockdep false positive
>
> 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.