Re: ATM stack locking broken

romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:34:35 +0100

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> :
[...]
> I've spent some time trying to figure out why an ATM driver
> I was hacking with kept deadlocking until I figured out the
> problem actually is the kernel ATM stack on SMP.
>
> spinlock usage in net/atm/* seem to be utterly broken, though
> I don't know the ATM stack well enough myself to fix it quickly,

It's known (for quite some time :o/ )
Don't hold your breath until xmas.

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