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    From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:09:45 -0700 (PDT)

    Umm, didn't actually CC: Eric, doing that now :-)

    > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:05:54 -0700
    >
    >> Anyway, the lock warning I do get seems to be networking-related, and
    >> is appended. Does this ring any bells? It could easily be something
    >> old: I turn on lock debugging only when I look for bugs (or when
    >> people point out bugs that I've created :^/ )
    >
    > This is a false positive but I have no idea how we can annotate
    > this to not trigger in lockdep.
    >
    > These are per-cpu locks for counter management.
    >
    > The get_counters() code knows that the locks for other cpu's counters
    > can only be taken in software interrupt context of that other cpu. So
    > it is legal to turn software interrupts back on when grabbing their
    > locks in base context.
    >
    > CC:'ing Eric Dumazet since he put the code the way it is now :-)
    > Via commit 24b36f0193467fa727b85b4c004016a8dae999b9
    > ("netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: dont block bottom half more than necessary")
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