Re: cxgb3: Fix lockdep problems with sge.reg_lock

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Roland Dreier wrote:
> Using iWARP with a Chelsio T3 NIC generates the following lockdep warning:
> 
>     =================================
>     [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
>     2.6.25-rc6 #50
>     ---------------------------------
>     inconsistent {softirq-on-W} -> {in-softirq-W} usage.
>     swapper/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE0:SE0] takes:
>      (&adap->sge.reg_lock){-+..}, at: [<ffffffff880e5ee2>] cxgb_offload_ctl+0x3af/0x507 [cxgb3]
> 
> The problem is that reg_lock is used with plain spin_lock() in
> drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c but is used with spin_lock_irqsave() in
> drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c.  This is technically a false
> positive, since the uses in sge.c are only in the initialization and
> cleanup paths and cannot overlap with any use in interrupt context.
> 
> The best fix is probably just to use spin_lock_irq() with reg_lock in
> sge.c.  Even though it's not strictly required for correctness, it
> avoids triggering lockdep and the extra overhead of disabling
> interrupts is not important at all in the initialization and cleanup
> slow paths.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

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