[openib-general] ipoib lockdep warning
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Jul 12 12:01:37 PDT 2006
> this does not have to be a false positive!
> It is not legal to take ANY non-hardirq safe lock after having taken a
> lock that's used in hardirq context.
> (having said that the skb_queue_tail lock needs a special treatment for
> some real false positives; Linus merged that already)
...
> Now this assumes your queue is shared with the networking stack,
Right, understood -- but ipoib has a private skb queue. Which is why
I said it was a false positive.
Thanks,
Roland
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