From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 2/2] net: introduce netif_addr_lock_nested() and call if when appropriate
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:07:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326136028.2725.0.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120109163654.GC2114@minipsycho.brq.redhat.com>
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 17:36 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> dev_uc_sync() and dev_mc_sync() are acquiring netif_addr_lock for
> destination device of synchronization. Since netif_addr_lock is already
> held at the time for source device, this triggers depmod deathlock
> warning.
[...]
I think you mean '...lockdep deadlock warning'?
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-09 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-09 16:18 [patch net-next 1/2] net: correct lock name in dev_[uc/mc]_sync documentations Jiri Pirko
2012-01-09 16:18 ` [patch net-next 2/2] net: introduce netif_addr_lock_nested() and call if when appropriate Jiri Pirko
2012-01-09 16:36 ` [patch net-next v2 " Jiri Pirko
2012-01-09 19:07 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2012-01-09 20:47 ` David Miller
2012-01-09 23:47 ` Jiri Pirko
2012-01-09 20:47 ` [patch net-next 1/2] net: correct lock name in dev_[uc/mc]_sync documentations David Miller
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