netdev - Re: [PATCH] add netconsole support for xen-netfront

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:00:42 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Ian.Campbell@...rix.com
Cc:	konrad.wilk@...cle.com, tina.yang@...cle.com,
	zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gurudas.pai@...cle.com, jeremy@...p.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add netconsole support for xen-netfront

From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:58:00 +0000

> On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 18:24 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 
>> From 1c265b7946f222ab6a5aac5245a0ab84618772c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:18:29 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] xen/netfront: add netconsole support.
>> 
>> add polling interface to xen-netfront device to support netconsole
>> 
>> This patch also alters the spin_lock usage to use irqsave variant.
>> Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt states that start_xmit
>> can be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole and therefore using
>> the irqsave/restore locking in this function is looks correct.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Tina.Yang <tina.yang@...cle.com>
>> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong.Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>
>> Tested-by: gurudas.pai <gurudas.pai@...cle.com>
>> [v1: Copy-n-pasted Ian Campbell comments]
>> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>

Applied.
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