netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7974] New: BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0x10000100/0

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Message-ID: <20070213155446.2f423782@freekitty>
Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:54:46 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lpiccilli@...re.com.br,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7974] New: BUG: scheduling while atomic:
 swapper/0x10000100/0


> >/**
> > * bond_rtnl_wrapper - take the rtnl_lock if needed
> > * @x:         function with args
> > *
> > */
> >#define RTNL_WRAPPER(x)                \
> >({                                     \
> >       int __rc__;                     \
> >       if (rtnl_trylock()) {           \
> >               __rc__ = x;             \
> >               rtnl_unlock();          \
> >       } else {                        \
> >               __rc__ = x;             \
> >       }                               \
> >       __rc__;                         \
> >})
> >
> >
> >and wrapped it around the calls to dev_set_mac_address.  I wasn't
> >pleased with it, but it seemed like it worked pretty well based on the
> >testing I did.
> 
> 	The problem with this is that it'll cause failures in the case
> that some other unrelated entity holds rtnl ("x" will be performed
> concurrently with whomever actually holds rtnl).
> 
> 	-J

It is also a crap macro.
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