From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
fpavlic@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: fix lock usage in udp_ioctl
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:55:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060615065531.GA10411@osiris.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060615052806.GA19803@elte.hu>
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:28:07AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> > This is bogus. These two locks belong to two different queues and
> > they never intersect.
>
> yeah - qeth does its own skb-queue management here, and it's done in an
> irq-safe manner.
>
> Heiko, in qeth_main.c, could you do something like:
>
> + static struct lockdep_type_key qdio_out_skb_queue_key;
>
> ...
> skb_queue_head_init(&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].
> skb_list);
> + lockdep_reinit_key(&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].skb_list,
> &qdio_out_skb_queue_key)
How about the patch below? The warning goes away and I assume "tmp_list" needs
lockdep_reinit_key too, since it should have the same locking rules as the
rest of qeth's skb-queue management.
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Avoid false positive illegal lock usage message in qeth driver.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c 2006-06-15 08:46:26.000000000 +0200
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c 2006-06-15 08:29:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ static debug_info_t *qeth_dbf_qerr = NUL
DEFINE_PER_CPU(char[256], qeth_dbf_txt_buf);
+static struct lockdep_type_key qdio_out_skb_queue_key;
+
/**
* some more definitions and declarations
*/
@@ -3230,6 +3232,9 @@ qeth_alloc_qdio_buffers(struct qeth_card
&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->qdio_bufs[j];
skb_queue_head_init(&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].
skb_list);
+ lockdep_reinit_key(
+ &card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].skb_list.lock,
+ &qdio_out_skb_queue_key);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].ctx_list);
}
}
@@ -5273,6 +5278,7 @@ qeth_free_vlan_buffer(struct qeth_card *
struct sk_buff_head tmp_list;
skb_queue_head_init(&tmp_list);
+ lockdep_reinit_key(&tmp_list.lock, &qdio_out_skb_queue_key);
for(i = 0; i < QETH_MAX_BUFFER_ELEMENTS(card); ++i){
while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&buf->skb_list))){
if (vlan_tx_tag_present(skb) &&
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-15 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-14 19:43 [patch] ipv4: fix lock usage in udp_ioctl Heiko Carstens
2006-06-14 22:16 ` David Miller
2006-06-14 23:12 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-15 5:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-06-15 6:55 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2006-06-15 10:52 ` Ingo Molnar
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