Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] net/802/tr: use interrupt-safe locking

2005-08-21 Thread Andrew Morton
Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >FWIW, this patch is currently being carried in the Fedora and RHEL > >kernels. It certainly looks like it is necessary to me. Can we get > >some movement on this? > > It's in the SuSE kernel as well. For how long has this fix been in the ven

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] net/802/tr: use interrupt-safe locking

2005-08-17 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:48:25PM -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote: > John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Pretty close. > > Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ooops...sorry! Tired, sloppy typing... :-( > I believ

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] net/802/tr: use interrupt-safe locking

2005-08-17 Thread David S. Miller
From: "John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:49:59 -0400 > Change operations on rif_lock from spin_{un}lock_bh to > spin_{un}lock_irq{save,restore} equivalents. Some of the > rif_lock critical sections are called from interrupt context via > tr_type_trans->tr_add_rif_inf

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] net/802/tr: use interrupt-safe locking

2005-08-17 Thread Jay Vosburgh
John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Change operations on rif_lock from spin_{un}lock_bh to >spin_{un}lock_irq{save,restore} equivalents. Some of the >rif_lock critical sections are called from interrupt context via >tr_type_trans->tr_add_rif_info. The TR NIC drivers call tr_type_trans >

[patch 2.6.13-rc6] net/802/tr: use interrupt-safe locking

2005-08-17 Thread John W. Linville
Change operations on rif_lock from spin_{un}lock_bh to spin_{un}lock_irq{save,restore} equivalents. Some of the rif_lock critical sections are called from interrupt context via tr_type_trans->tr_add_rif_info. The TR NIC drivers call tr_type_trans from their packet receive handlers. Signed-off-by