netdev - Re: unsafe locks seen with netperf on net-2.6.29 tree

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Message-ID: <20081229120132.GA10363@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:01:32 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	"Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Subject: Re: unsafe locks seen with netperf on net-2.6.29 tree

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:58:27PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> no, i only applied one of them. Is his second patch a good solution in 
> your opinion, and should i thus test both of them? (or will the second one 
> iterate some more - in which case i will keep the revert for now)

Well the second patch is definitely the right solution to the
problem as reported.  It just needs to be extended to fix other
similar bugs introduced by the original changeset.

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