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Mark Broadbent wrote: > The interrupt handling code in the tulip network driver appears to use a non > IRQ safe spinlock in an interrupt context. The following patch should correct > this. Huh? Can a network interrupt handler be interrupted by the same interrupt? AFAIK, the spin_lock_irqsave is to disable interruptions so that an interrupt can not happen in the critical section, so that the interrupt handler can not make modifications to shared data. Am I wrong? -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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