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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:03:30 -0400 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linville@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: use non-BH variant of RCU On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:31:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Linus's tree is fine for this. > > But we need this fix for 2.6.35-stable too. Herbert would > you object to putting John's more simple fix there? To use rcu_read_lock safely we'd also need to add do synchronize_rcu in addition of synchronize_rcu_bh, right Paul? Of course as we were doing this unsafely prior to my patch anyway I'm also fine with just reverting it. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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