Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 04:21:06 EST


On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> Probably tangential, but Herbert, is the call to synchronize_rcu() in
> dev_deactivate() really correct?

Yes it's still correct as of today's tree. Of course patches
such as preemptible RCU may change things but they'll need to
audit this anyway.

Cheers,
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