Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751485AbWLLQPZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:15:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751500AbWLLQPZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:15:25 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:40872 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751485AbWLLQPX (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:15:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:13:54 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Ingo Molnar cc: Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Herbert Xu , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] netpoll: fix netpoll lockups In-Reply-To: <20061212101656.GA5064@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20061212101656.GA5064@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 862 Lines: 24 On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > current -git doesnt boot on my laptop due to the following netpoll > breakages: > > - unlock the tx lock in the else branch too ... > - use irq-safe locking instead of bh-safe locking, netpoll is > often called from irq context. This one doesn't apply for me any more, probably because David checked in the patch from Andrew that fixed at least _part_ of the problem. Davem, Ingo, Herbert, can you verify whether the fixes in the current -git tree replace this patch from Ingo, or whether Ingo's patch is still needed and just needs to be refreshed. Linus - 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/