Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754794AbYJCATS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753519AbYJCATI (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:19:08 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.231]:26036 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753542AbYJCATH (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:19:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=iT8yXYhbTdFXRVazUxIq+xrLePD6WXNRLq33yv9I939je1mMPgrALk1+DPN1B+ara8 /wsgGWenYLfk5JwXfOcgUUxxCDILVwI6J2HF1Dc07eo4+jRVGgi1+hnrg7fkkF6tnZvL jjo3v5EdqwK1EUXDKGy1zqOVMkwo34fRRWoe0= Message-ID: <4807377b0810021719m164e734cndaddb7006508cabc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:19:06 -0700 From: "Jesse Brandeburg" To: "Thomas Gleixner" , "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: prevent concurrent access to NVRAM Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Olaf Kirch" , "Jiri Kosina" , "Jesse Brandeburg" , LKML , linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org, kkeil@suse.de, agospoda@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, david.graham@intel.com, bruce.w.allan@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com, chris.jones@canonical.com, tim.gardner@intel.com, airlied@gmail.com, "Ingo Molnar" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080930030825.22950.18891.stgit@jbrandeb-bw.jf.intel.com> <20080930031952.22950.45228.stgit@jbrandeb-bw.jf.intel.com> <200810021703.43770.okir@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 18 On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The confirmed bugs where the nvram acquire code was called > concurrently are still in your tree and the prevention patch along > with the resulting bugfixes are stuck in some obscure intel QA > process. > > Please apply at least the bug prevention patch below. This is the same patch I posted 7 minutes ago, except that this patch without the e1000e changes applied before it will cause all sorts of WARN's to be printed during normal operation. If at all possible I think they should stay together as a group to prevent un-necessary noise in the logs. -- 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/