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SubjectRe: [PATCHv3 1/3] NETPOLL: Extend rx_hook support.
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrei Warkentin" <awarkentin@vmware.com>
> To: "Jason Wessel" <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrei Warkentin" <andreiw@vmware.com>,
> kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, "Matt Mackall" <mpm@selenic.com>, "Andrei Warkentin"
> <andrey.warkentin@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:43:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] NETPOLL: Extend rx_hook support.
>
> >
> > All that netpoll_poll() did was to call netpoll_poll_dev(). I have
> > not yet looked at the differences between kgdboe and the netkdb
> > code
> > you proposed but I would have suspected it also falls victim to the
> > ethernet preemption problem which prevented kgdboe from ever being
> > considered for a mainline merge. Certainly there are ways to fix
> > this
> > problem but most involved changes to scheduling, core net code, or
> > substantial driver specific changes.
> >
>
> I see, I read up on the issues w.r.t. preemption. Could this be
> worked
> around by modifiying affected drivers to bypass locking if they are
> used in KDB context? Make some accessor netdev-specific lock/unlocks
> that won't do anything if running in KDB context.
>
>

By the way, is there a good way to repro the preemption case? Hopefully this doesn't
involve some crazy hardware...

A


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