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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vpalatin@chromium.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	alexandre.torgue@st.com, peppe.cavallaro@st.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stmmac: do not sleep in atomic context for mdio_reset
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:12:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160602.121245.1302730459604436490.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464796428-25623-1-git-send-email-vpalatin@chromium.org>

From: Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@chromium.org>
Date: Wed,  1 Jun 2016 08:53:48 -0700

> stmmac_mdio_reset() has been updated to use msleep rather udelay
> (as some PHY requires a one second delay there).
> It called from stmmac_resume() within the spin_lock_irqsave block
> atomic context triggering 'scheduling while atomic'.
> 
> The stmmac_priv lock usage is not fully documented, but it seems
> to protect the access to the MAC registers / DMA structures rather
> than the MDIO bus or the PHY (which have separate locking),
> so we can push the spin_lock after the stmmac_mdio_reset call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@chromium.org>

Applied, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-01 15:53 [PATCH] stmmac: do not sleep in atomic context for mdio_reset Vincent Palatin
2016-06-02 19:12 ` David Miller [this message]

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