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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:42:12 +0000
From:	James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver

Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:49:24PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:19:35PM +0000, James Chapman wrote:
>> ...
>>> Below is example output from lockdep. The oops is reproducible when  
>>> creating/deleting lots of sessions while passing data. The lock is being  
>>> acquired for read and write in softirq contexts.
> 
> ...Hmmm... And according to this, changing read_locks should be
> necessary too.

The patch changes both read and write locks.

-- 
James Chapman
Katalix Systems Ltd
http://www.katalix.com
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