From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Flavio Leitner Subject: Re: [v5 Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:25:23 -0300 Message-ID: <20100527212523.GB2345@sysclose.org> References: <20100505081514.5157.83783.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20100527180545.GA2345@sysclose.org> <20100527.133559.193700421.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: amwang@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, gospo@redhat.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, jmoyer@redhat.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, fubar@us.ibm.com To: David Miller Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100527.133559.193700421.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 01:35:59PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Flavio Leitner > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:05:45 -0300 > > > I did the following patch to discard the packet if it was IN_NETPOLL > > and the read_lock() fails, so I could go ahead testing it: > > This is disgusting, let's just disallow console output from such > locations. Defer them to a workqueue if their output is so critical. I did that patch just to see the backtrace in the serial console and to keep testing it. It's not a solution at all. Just to be clear, the second problem isn't related to that patch and the console message is already in a workqueue. -- Flavio