netdev - Re: [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:55:33 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:49:24PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:19:35PM +0000, James Chapman wrote:
> ...
> > Below is example output from lockdep. The oops is reproducible when  
> > creating/deleting lots of sessions while passing data. The lock is being  
> > acquired for read and write in softirq contexts.

...Hmmm... And according to this, changing read_locks should be
necessary too.

Jarek P.
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