Re: [PATCH 1/1] tpm: fix cause of SMP stack traces

[Chris Wright]

* Kylene Hall (kjhall@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I actually had to move the location of some of the locks to remove the
> might sleep warnings.

Ah, that sounds like the proper fix.

> Since I didn't know much about the might sleep
> warnings before, my first course of action was to try using the disable
> irq mechanism and I went ahead and just left them in once it was working
> with the new lock placements.  I assume you believe they shouldn't be
> necessary at all?

Right.  Unless you're taking same spin_lock in irq context (which I
didn't recall you were doing).

thanks,
-chris
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