From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com,
Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
Pavel Nakonechny <pavel.nakonechny@skitlab.ru>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nbd@openwrt.org, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6060: Fix false positive lockdep splat
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:14:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021161416.GG17207@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5627B149.6030109@baylibre.com>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 05:37:45PM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> Like the change made for mv88e6xxx, use mutex_lock_nested() to avoid
> lockdep to give false positives because of nested MDIO busses.
Hi Neil
We now have three instances of this, since mdio-mux.c has the same
code. Maybe now would be a good time to refactor this code into
mdiobus_read_nested() and mdiobus_write_nested() in mdio_bus.c? At
the same time, add BUG_ON(in_interrupt()) similar to the non-nested
versions?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-21 15:37 [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6060: Fix false positive lockdep splat Neil Armstrong
2015-10-21 16:14 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2015-10-22 7:33 ` Neil Armstrong
2015-10-22 8:08 ` Neil Armstrong
2015-10-22 8:08 ` Neil Armstrong
2015-10-22 12:06 ` Andrew Lunn
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