netdev - Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Consistently disable irqs when taking adapter->cmd

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Date:	Fri, 06 May 2011 13:12:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	scottjg@...are.com
Cc:	sbhatewara@...are.com, roland@...nel.org, pv-drivers@...are.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Consistently disable irqs when
 taking adapter->cmd_lock

From: Scott Goldman <scottjg@...are.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:10:29 -0700

>> 
>> On Fri, 6 May 2011, Roland Dreier wrote:
>> 
>> > From: Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com>
>> >
>> > Using the vmxnet3 driver produces a lockdep warning because
>> 
>> > Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com>
>> 
>> 
>> Roland, thanks for the analysis and the patch.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
> 
> Likewise, seems pretty sane to me. The command register operations are only control-path operations and disabling interrupts for the duration is probably not a big deal. Touching the cmd reg will result a VMEXIT, where the guest won't be processing interrupts anyway. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott J. Goldman <scottjg@...are.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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