netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/3]tg3: synchronize_irq() should be called without taking locks

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:04:22 -0800
From:	Prashant Sreedharan <prashant@...adcom.com>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<mchan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3]tg3: synchronize_irq() should be called without
 taking locks

On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 10:57 -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 01/14/2015 01:30 AM, Prashant Sreedharan wrote:
> > Prashant Sreedharan (3):
> >   tg3_timer() should grab tp->lock before checking for tp->irq_sync
> >   tg3_reset_task() needs to use rtnl_lock to synchronize
> >   Release tp->lock before invoking synchronize_irq()
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> For series:
> 
> Reported-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
> Tested-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
> 
> But maybe one of these patches should reference that this fixes
> BUG: sleeping function... so that others can quickly find this
> fix (if they're bisecting or whatever). 

Sure will add

> For the same reason, it
> might be useful for this series to be just one patch.

These are logical different sections of code, I prefer them to be small
patches.

> 
> Regards,
> Peter Hurley
> 


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