Re: [PATCH] 8139too: fix a TX timeout watchdog thread against NAPI softirq race

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Ingo's stealth lock validator detected that both thread acquire
> > dev->xmit_lock and tp->rx_lock in reverse order.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> i've ported this to -mm4 (see the attached patch), but i'm also 
> getting a new deadlock message. Seems to be a separate issue, not 
> introduced by your patch - but still needs fixing i guess.

sorry - this is a false alarm. (caused by the lock validator not 
properly handling DEBUG_SHIRQ)

	Ingo
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