Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261337AbVDIMW3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 08:22:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261338AbVDIMW3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 08:22:29 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:32746 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261337AbVDIMW0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 08:22:26 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 14:20:45 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Manfred Spraul Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, antonb@au1.ibm.com, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, hpa@zytor.com, len.brown@intel.com, andmike@us.ibm.com, rth@twiddle.net, rusty@au1.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH 3/4] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _sched Message-ID: <20050409122045.GA6073@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20050408010949.GB1299@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 607 Lines: 19 Manfred Spraul : > [Jeff added to cc list - it's a network driver question] [...] > I haven't read the whole driver, but what about > spin_unlock_wait(&dev->xmit_lock); > ? The race here is a dev->close() against dev->hard_start_xmit() one where dev->hard_start_xmit() does not do any locking at all. (so far, so good...) -- Ueimor - 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/