From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, mchan@broadcom.com,
jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:01:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada8xoan7pd.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060605.221018.70218518.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:10:18 -0700 (PDT)")
David> As long as you never take priv->lock while ->xmit_lock is
David> held your patch should be OK.
Duh ... unfortunately priv->lock is taken from interrupt context so
that patch isn't safe. A correct fix would be the following, which
leads to a trivial conversion to using netif_tx_lock().
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
index 1dae4b2..7a8ca5d 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
@@ -821,8 +821,8 @@ void ipoib_mcast_restart_task(void *dev_
ipoib_mcast_stop_thread(dev, 0);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->xmit_lock, flags);
- spin_lock(&priv->lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&dev->xmit_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
/*
* Unfortunately, the networking core only gives us a list of all of
@@ -895,8 +895,8 @@ void ipoib_mcast_restart_task(void *dev_
}
}
- spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->xmit_lock, flags);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&dev->xmit_lock);
/* We have to cancel outside of the spinlock */
list_for_each_entry_safe(mcast, tmcast, &remove_list, list) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-06 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-31 4:51 netif_tx_disable and lockless TX Michael Chan
2006-05-31 4:58 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 5:11 ` David Miller
2006-05-31 5:14 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 6:26 ` David Miller
2006-05-31 6:31 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 7:08 ` David Miller
2006-05-31 12:06 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 12:36 ` jamal
2006-05-31 12:40 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 13:03 ` jamal
2006-05-31 17:52 ` Robert Olsson
2006-06-02 3:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-02 10:46 ` Robert Olsson
2006-06-14 12:52 ` jamal
2006-05-31 21:20 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-01 0:09 ` David Miller
2006-06-01 0:25 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-31 23:01 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-01 0:42 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-01 0:27 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-01 2:27 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-01 11:15 ` [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock Herbert Xu
2006-06-06 4:32 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 4:44 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 4:50 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 4:57 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 5:10 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 6:01 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-06-06 4:58 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 5:04 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-06 5:09 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 4:57 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 10:22 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-09 5:48 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-09 19:21 ` David Miller
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