Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm1

[Herbert Xu]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:43:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > IIRC Ingo had made fixes for the networking stack in his rt tree since
> > the networking code assumes in lots of places that rcu_read_lock
> > disables preemption.
> 
> oh.  We'd better find those fixes then.  I wonder what other code made that
> (rather hacky) assumption?  I guess we have enough debug stuff in there to
> find out..

Actually, maybe I was confusing this with the fixes Ingo had for
local_bh_disable vs. preemption in the -rt tree.  Ingo, do you
have preemptible RCU support in your -rt tree and if so did you
have to fix the networking stack to behave correctly with it?

It could also be that the fixes for local_bh_disable also masked
any problems that would trigger under preemptible RCU.

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