Mark Broadbent wrote:
The interrupt handling code in the tulip network driver appears to use a non
IRQ safe spinlock in an interrupt context. The following patch should correct
this.
Huh? Can a network interrupt handler be interrupted by the same interrupt?
AFAIK, the spin_lock_irqsave is to disable interruptions so that an
interrupt can not happen in the critical section, so that the interrupt
handler can not make modifications to shared data. Am I wrong?
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