linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rc5 with GRE, iptables and Speedtouch ADSL, PPP over ATM

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Date:	Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:48:19 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc5 with GRE, iptables and Speedtouch ADSL, PPP over ATM

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:44:14PM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
> 
> Seems, it serializes mod_timer and timer handler to keep timer
> in predictable state. Maybe, this is not necessary. A priori, it is required.
> 
> Note that in dev_watchdog_down() queue_lock is released before
> taking xmit_lock. Probably, this is the thing which was supposed
> to be done in dev_watchdog_up() too.

Right, in that case this should definitely be unncessary because both
dev_watchdog_up and dev_watchdog_up are called under RTNL.

The function __dev_watchdog_up could possibly be dodgy though but that's
a different story.

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