netdev - Re: [v5 Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices

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Message-ID: <20100527212523.GB2345@sysclose.org>
Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 18:25:23 -0300
From:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...close.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	amwang@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mpm@...enic.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, nhorman@...driver.com, jmoyer@...hat.com,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [v5 Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and
 bonding devices

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 01:35:59PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...close.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:05:45 -0300
> 
> > I did the following patch to discard the packet if it was IN_NETPOLL
> > and the read_lock() fails, so I could go ahead testing it:
> 
> This is disgusting, let's just disallow console output from such
> locations.  Defer them to a workqueue if their output is so critical.

I did that patch just to see the backtrace in the serial console
and to keep testing it. It's not a solution at all.

Just to be clear, the second problem isn't related to that patch
and the console message is already in a workqueue.

-- 
Flavio
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