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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hramrach@centrum.cz
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 18492] New: kernel softirq warning on boot
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:55:36 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100917.165536.254856822.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinyhM30KV+Etg2qDzEoqOjcPj7gv5EkPbknxYVQ@mail.gmail.com>

From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:00:42 +0200

> On 15 September 2010 08:46, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:11:03PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll take a closer look at this if Herbert doesn't beat me to it.
>>
>> I thought we were going to use this patch until Paul's BH warning
>> removal made it into mainline?
>>
>> netpoll: Disable IRQ around RCU dereference in netpoll_rx
>>
>> We cannot use rcu_dereference_bh safely in netpoll_rx as we may
>> be called with IRQs disabled.  We could however simply disable
>> IRQs as that too causes BH to be disabled and is safe in either
>> case.
>>
>> Thanks to John Linville for discovering this bug and providing
>> a patch.
>>
> With the patch applied I no longet get the warning.

Ok I'll toss this upstream since I have no indication that Paul's
RCU change will hit Linus's tree any time soon.

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-17 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-18492-10286@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2010-09-14 19:07 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 18492] New: kernel softirq warning on boot Andrew Morton
2010-09-14 20:45   ` Michal Suchanek
2010-09-14 20:57     ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-14 21:11       ` David Miller
2010-09-15  6:46         ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-16  4:40           ` David Miller
2010-09-17 18:00           ` Michal Suchanek
2010-09-17 23:55             ` David Miller [this message]

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