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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-tr@linuxtr.net, mikep@linuxtr.net,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, fubar@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] net/802/tr: use interrupt-safe locking
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:00:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050817.150047.64537724.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050817204959.GA20186@tuxdriver.com>

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:49:59 -0400

> Change operations on rif_lock from spin_{un}lock_bh to
> spin_{un}lock_irq{save,restore} equivalents.  Some of the
> rif_lock critical sections are called from interrupt context via
> tr_type_trans->tr_add_rif_info.  The TR NIC drivers call tr_type_trans
> from their packet receive handlers.

Applied, I'll try to get this into 2.6.13, but it may have
to wait for 2.6.14

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-17 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2005-08-17 20:49 ` [patch 2.6.13-rc6] net/802/tr: use interrupt-safe locking John W. Linville
2005-08-17 21:48   ` Jay Vosburgh
2005-08-18  1:55     ` John W. Linville
2005-08-21  8:38     ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-17 22:00   ` David S. Miller [this message]

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