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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, mst@redhat.com, frzhang@redhat.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, amwang@redhat.com, shemminger@vyatta.com,
	mpm@selenic.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:52:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100624.215206.258121498.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100624214204.a85c8ba2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:42:04 -0700

> I'd imagine that netconsole would get in the way rather a lot for net
> developers, but it's really useful!

I have a fully logging stable serial or hypervisor console on every
one of my boxes, why would I even bother?

> That being said, I wonder why Herbert didn't hit this in his testing. 
> I suspect that he'd enabled lockdep, which hid the bug.  I haven't
> worked out _why_ lockdep hides the double-mutex_unlock bug, but it's a
> pretty bad thing to do.

Yes, definitely something to look into.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-25  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-10 12:40 [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/7] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 5/7] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 7/7] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 14:49 ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 21:56   ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 21:59     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 22:48       ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:11         ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 2/8] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 23:10             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 4/8] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 5/8] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-25  1:21             ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  3:01               ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-25  3:30               ` David Miller
2010-06-25  3:50                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  4:27                   ` David Miller
2010-06-25  4:42                     ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  4:52                       ` David Miller [this message]
2010-06-25  8:08                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25  8:42                         ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  9:45                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25  8:46                       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-25 10:08                       ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 7/8] netpoll: Add netpoll_tx_running Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  3:08             ` fired a bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com Qianfeng Zhang
2010-06-15 10:28             ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:38               ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-17 10:57                 ` Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:55                   ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-18  3:06                     ` Cong Wang
2010-06-11 20:03           ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Matt Mackall
2010-06-15 10:17           ` Cong Wang
2010-06-15 18:39           ` David Miller
2010-06-16  2:58             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  3:03               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  3:33                 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-16  4:47                   ` David Miller
2010-06-16 23:02                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-17 10:18                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-06-17 21:26                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16  6:16                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  5:08               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16  6:21                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 16:01                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-19 10:19           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-19 10:53             ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 11:54               ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 16:05                 ` David Miller
2010-07-19 16:52                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-19 20:35                     ` David Miller
2010-07-20  5:26                   ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-20  6:28                     ` David Miller
2010-06-29 12:53 ` Yanko Kaneti

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