Re: [PATCH net v2] bonding: fix bond_poll_controller bh_enable warning
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2015-08-28 21:13:52
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2015-08-28 21:13:52
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:22:20 -0700
The problem is rcu_read_unlock_bh() which triggers a warning when irqs are disabled. ndo_poll_controller can run with bh enabled, disabled or irqs disabled so check if that is the case and acquire rcu_read_lock_bh only when not running with disabled irqs.
I would say that having hard irqs disabled is a strict requirement, as per the debugging test in netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(): WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled()); If you want to add the same check to netpoll_send_udp(), that's fine. But what isn't fine is adding all of this conditional locking, we want ->poll_controller() implementations to be able to depend upon the IRQ environment they execute in, otherwise every single implementation might need to have ugly conditional locking as well.