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Message-ID: <1367243217.4100.13.camel@weser.hi.pengutronix.de> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:46:57 +0200 From: Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de> To: Frank Li <lznuaa@...il.com> Cc: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Frank.Li@...escale.com" <Frank.Li@...escale.com>, Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH resend 1/3] Revert "net: fec: fix missing napi_disable call" Am Samstag, den 27.04.2013, 18:26 +0800 schrieb Frank Li: > > > > - remove locking in a way that memory is freed which is in use > > The purpose of remove lock is that fix dead lock. Could you please elaborate? What is the exact situation which caused a deadlock here? I tried to see what's happening from your changelogs, but I'm not sure I can follow here. Wasn't the problem more of the used spinlocks not being IRQ-save and thus potentially creating a deadlock? Regards, Lucas -- Pengutronix e.K. | Lucas Stach | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-5076 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- 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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