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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] skge: irq lock race
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:19:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FEE6F1.7010701@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060901225449.239532256@zqx3.pdx.osdl.net>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The driver needs to access the IRQ status inside of lock to avoid
> races with other places changing IRQ mask etc. This may be related
> to some of the SMP bugs reported against skge in kernel bugzilla.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
> 
> --- netdev-2.6.orig/drivers/net/skge.c
> +++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/skge.c
> @@ -2891,13 +2891,15 @@ static irqreturn_t skge_intr(int irq, vo
>  {
>  	struct skge_hw *hw = dev_id;
>  	u32 status;
> +	int handled = 0;
>  
> +	spin_lock(&hw->hw_lock);
>  	/* Reading this register masks IRQ */
>  	status = skge_read32(hw, B0_SP_ISRC);
>  	if (status == 0)
> -		return IRQ_NONE;
> +		goto out;

You also need to check for device/hardware fault here (status==0xffffffff).

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-06 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-01 22:53 [PATCH 0/5] skge update Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-01 22:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] skge: use netdev_alloc_skb Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-06 15:19   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-01 22:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] skge: irq lock race Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-06 15:19   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-06 18:06     ` [PATCH] skge: heck for PCI hotplug during IRQ Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-11 13:07       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-01 22:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] skge: use NAPI for transmit complete Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-01 22:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] skge: version 1.8 Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-01 22:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] skge: pci_post bugs Stephen Hemminger

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