From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: [PATCH] mlx4_en: don't use napi_synchronize inside mlx4_en_netpoll Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:09:24 -0400 Message-ID: <534DAE14.2090604@fb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: , Return-path: Received: from mx0b-00082601.pphosted.com ([67.231.153.30]:57201 "EHLO mx0b-00082601.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750898AbaDOWJO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:09:14 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The mlx4 driver is triggering schedules while atomic inside mlx4_en_netpoll: spin_lock_irqsave(&cq->lock, flags); napi_synchronize(&cq->napi); ^^^^^ msleep here mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(dev, cq, 0); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cq->lock, flags); This was part of a patch by Alexander Guller from Mellanox in 2011, but it still isn't upstream. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 6 +----- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h | 1 - 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c index 70e9532..c2cd8d3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ int mlx4_en_create_cq(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv, cq->ring = ring; cq->is_tx = mode; - spin_lock_init(&cq->lock); /* Allocate HW buffers on provided NUMA node. * dev->numa_node is used in mtt range allocation flow. diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c index f085c2d..7e4b172 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c @@ -1304,15 +1304,11 @@ static void mlx4_en_netpoll(struct net_device *dev) { struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev); struct mlx4_en_cq *cq; - unsigned long flags; int i; for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) { cq = priv->rx_cq[i]; - spin_lock_irqsave(&cq->lock, flags); - napi_synchronize(&cq->napi); - mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(dev, cq, 0); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cq->lock, flags); + napi_schedule(&cq->napi); } } #endif diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h index 7a733c2..04d9b6fe 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h @@ -319,7 +319,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_cq { struct mlx4_cq mcq; struct mlx4_hwq_resources wqres; int ring; - spinlock_t lock; struct net_device *dev; struct napi_struct napi; int size; -- 1.8.1