From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: auro deadlock Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:59:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20060710065952.GA25867@elte.hu> References: <20060707171916.GA16343@redhat.com> <1152295989.3111.116.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060707.120936.98532669.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: arjan@infradead.org, davej@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:28034 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161362AbWGJHE1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:04:27 -0400 To: David Miller Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060707.120936.98532669.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org * David Miller wrote: > The lockdep fixes are starting to cause us to go in and start adding > hard IRQ protection to many socket layer objects and I want this > thinking to end quickly :) In earlier lockdep versions we had many such hacks, but in the current upstream kernel we've only got one such case so far: one netlink function, where the alternative was to rewrite softmac. I fixed all the earlier hacks to be proper annotations - and the plan is to keep things clean in the future too :-) Ingo