netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] gianfar: Make polling safe with IRQs disabled

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Date:	Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:41:06 -0600
From:	Jon Loeliger <jdl@....com>
To:	avorontsov@...mvista.com
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] gianfar: Make polling safe with IRQs disabled 

> 
> Hm, then I'd better remove the #ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL.
> 
> Interestingly though, why conn_track does the polling with irqs
> disabled, could be a bug in the conn_track? Because pretty much
> drivers assume that polling is called with IRQs enabled.
> 
> If it's easily reproducible, could you replace the printk() with
> WARN_ON(1) and post the backtrace? Or I can try to reproduce the
> issue if you tell me how.
> 
> Thanks!

Yeah, I can reproduce it.  I'll try and get that for you.

jdl
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