Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:21:46 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] netconsole: Disable softirqs in write_msg() |
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* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:14:41 +0100 > > > Thanks! We strengthened/cleaned up the bh checks a tiny bit > > recently, maybe that caused this to pop up. It might explain some > > netconsole lockups perhaps? Or, the new warning might be bogus. > > It's a bit of a maze. > > See my other reply to Jarek's patch posting, we're supposed to > ignore all RX packets in this situation, and all the logic appears > to be there, but it's not happening on that person's system for some > reason.
Saw that ... an insanely complex scenario.
So at least there's a partial result: it appears to not be a false positive warning in the generic softirq/lockdep code.
Ingo
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