Re: [SNMP]: Fix SNMP counters with PREEMPT

[David Miller]

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:30:25 +0800

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:03:19PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > How come you change SNMP_INC_STATS_USER() but not SNMP_INC_STATS() ?
> 
> Heh, my brain must have blocked me from seeing it because it's
> too hard :)
> 
> Let's fix it the stupid way first and I'll do a local_t conversion
> later.
> 
> [SNMP]: Fix SNMP counters with PREEMPT
> 
> The SNMP macros use raw_smp_processor_id() in process context
> which is illegal because the process may be preempted and then
> migrated to another CPU.
> 
> This patch makes it use get_cpu/put_cpu to disable preemption.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I just noticed this and replaced the other SNMP fix patch
with this one.
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