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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	shemminger@vyatta.com, jarkao2@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:30:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1229643003.3601.58.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229640015.2914.20.camel@hashbaz.i.decadent.org.uk> (sfid-20081219_002215_896671_C1B9AA7B)

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On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 22:40 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> >  	if (rx_packets < budget) {
> >  		/* There is no race here; although napi_disable() will
> > -		 * only wait for netif_rx_complete(), this isn't a problem
> > +		 * only wait for netif_rx_complete(this isn't a problem
> >  		 * since efx_channel_processed() will have no effect if
> >  		 * interrupts have already been disabled.
> >  		 */
> [...]
> 
> You'll want to exclude comments from your search-and-replace.

Or just use spatch (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Should be as easy as:

@@
expression A, B;
@@
-netif_rx_schedule(A, B);
+netif_rx_schedule(B);

etc.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-09 21:06 [PATCH] netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry Neil Horman
2008-12-10  7:22 ` David Miller
2008-12-11 13:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-12-11 14:29   ` Neil Horman
2008-12-11 17:01   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-11 18:15     ` Neil Horman
2008-12-12  0:03       ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-12 12:18         ` Neil Horman
2008-12-16 23:55           ` David Miller
2008-12-17 21:16             ` Neil Horman
2008-12-17 21:31               ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-17 23:44                 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-18  1:13                 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-18  3:29                   ` David Miller
2008-12-18 14:47                     ` Neil Horman
2008-12-18 19:52                     ` Neil Horman
2008-12-18 22:40                       ` Ben Hutchings
2008-12-18 23:30                         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-12-19  1:25                         ` Neil Horman
2008-12-19  6:42                           ` David Miller
2008-12-19 13:42                             ` Neil Horman
2008-12-23  4:43                               ` David Miller
2008-12-18  9:04                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-12-12  7:07       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-12-12 13:31         ` Neil Horman

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