Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:49:39 +0100 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: [patch] net, 8139too.c: fix netpoll deadlock |
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Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> : > Ingo Molnar wrote: [...] > >fix deadlock in the 8139too driver: poll handlers should never forcibly > >enable local interrupts, because they might be used by netpoll/printk > >from IRQ context. > > ACK > > (I'll queue it, if Linus doesn't pick it up; please CC me in the future)
I have lived with the "NAPI ->poll() handler runs in BH irq enabled context" rule for years. Is it definitely false/dead ?
If so at least 8139cp needs the same fix.
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