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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] netconsole: avoid deadlock on printk from driver code
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From: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:44:32 +0300 (EEST)

> @@ -598,6 +598,7 @@
>
> spinlock_t lock;
> spinlock_t rx_lock;
> + spinlock_t tx_lock;
>
> chip_t chipset;
> u32 rx_config;

Why create a special purpose lock when the generic networking
already is taking a lock for you to proect the TX path?

Furthermore, as I just described in another reply, netpoll
already knows that it might need to trylock() attempt on this
lock in order to avoid the very deadlocks this thread is
about.


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