Regression in next with "softirq: fix tasklet_kill() and its users"

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Sep 22 13:59:41 PDT 2016


* Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com> [160922 13:59]:
> On 9/22/2016 1:51 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Hi Santosh,
> > 
> > Looks like commit 1f5e9c3bc47f ("softirq: fix tasklet_kill() and
> > its users") causes pandaboard es to not get any IP address on the
> > smsc95xx USB Ethernet.
> > 
> > Reverting the commits fixes the issue. Any ideas?
> > 
> Yep. It was discussed today morning and Stephen was suppose to
> revert that commit from next for now.
> 
> The tasklet core fix even though fixes the issue, there are many
> bad users of tasklet which are using tasklet APIs without
> doing any sort of tasklet initialization. So there is more
> work to do before the tasklet core can be fixed.

OK thanks for the info.

Regards,

Tony



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