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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 05:14:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... > > >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10326 ... > No, it's not an irq_disable() thing, directly. > > What lockdep is saying is that sky2_poll() is taking napi->poll_lock for > writing with softirqs enabled, but net_rx_action() takes the same lock from > within softirq context. > > If sky2_poll() always takes napi->poll_lock under local_irq_disable() then > that would be a lockdep bug. sky2_poll() doesn't take napi->poll_lock; this lock is taken by netpoll_poll() before calling sky2_poll(). And before this hardirqs are disabled in write_msg(). So, theoretically lockdep could be right if sky2_poll() would enable irqs after this. (If it were done in netpoll - lockdep should warn before or after sky2_poll() call.) But I really can't see any such possibility in sky2_poll(). Regards, Jarek P. -- 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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