netdev - Re: [BUG] netconsole broken by scheduler updates

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Date:	Thu, 26 May 2011 16:18:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Cc:	laurent.riffard@...e.fr, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] netconsole broken by scheduler updates

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:48:28 +0200

> Also, are you very _very_ sure that lockdep message is a false positive?

I suspect these warnings are entirely specific to using netconsole
with the forcedeth driver.

There is some really scary stuff in there, to say the least.

Just have a look at nv_do_nic_poll().  That's the first time I've
seen a networking driver use the {disable,enable}_irq_lockdep()
interfaces.

It's also using netif_tx_unlock_bh() in the "recovery" case which
in netpoll will cause a local_bh_enable() with cpu interrupts
disabled.  Which is not allowed.

Much of the forcedeth driver's locking seems suspect to me.
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