netdev - Re: 2.6.23-rc5: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected

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Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:18:12 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Cc:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc5: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:04:41PM -0400, jamal wrote:
>
> disabling BH would make it more symmetric to the way we handle
> egress. I couldnt reproduce the issue, but this should hopefully resolve
> it.
> Christian, can you test with this patch?

Jamal, it's the police_lock that we need to make _bh.  The
ingress_lock is already _bh because of the spin_lock_bh that
directly precedes it.

Oh and I think the same thing applies for the other actions
too.

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