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Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:10:29 -0700 From: Scott Goldman <scottjg@...are.com> To: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>, Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org> CC: "pv-drivers@...are.com" <pv-drivers@...are.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: RE: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Consistently disable irqs when taking adapter->cmd_lock > > On Fri, 6 May 2011, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > From: Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com> > > > > Using the vmxnet3 driver produces a lockdep warning because > > > Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com> > > > Roland, thanks for the analysis and the patch. > > Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com> Likewise, seems pretty sane to me. The command register operations are only control-path operations and disabling interrupts for the duration is probably not a big deal. Touching the cmd reg will result a VMEXIT, where the guest won't be processing interrupts anyway. Signed-off-by: Scott J. Goldman <scottjg@...are.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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