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* [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 0/6] e1000e mutex protection
@ 2008-10-02 23:33 Jesse Brandeburg
  2008-10-02 23:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 1/6] e1000e: reset swflag after resetting hardware Jesse Brandeburg
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From: Jesse Brandeburg @ 2008-10-02 23:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel, netdev, tglx, arjan, airlied, davem, jeff

This series of patches fixes several bugs found by putting a
mutex inside e1000_acquire_swfw_flag, and then the patch from
Thomas actually adds this mutex to help find any further bugs.

Like Jesse Barnes said, "totally up to you (obviously) whether we
stuff this into 2.6.27 or hold on it until 2.6.28."

Linus, since you mentioned this exact same issue that Thomas (and
Dave Airlie) spotted I figured I should just send these.
Testing will continue over the next couple of days and I'll let
you know immediately if we find something.

The patches are pretty straight forward and each one fixed a
separate bug we found using the mutex patch.  It is possible that
these fix the actual corruption issue but we haven't verified
that yet.

---

Jesse Brandeburg (5):
      e1000e: update version from k4 to k6
      e1000e: drop stats lock
      e1000e: remove phy read from inside spinlock
      e1000e: do not ever sleep in interrupt context
      e1000e: reset swflag after resetting hardware

Thomas Gleixner (1):
      e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG


 drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h   |    3 +-
 drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c |    6 +++-
 drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c |   20 +++++++++++++
 drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c  |   64 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 4 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

-- 
Jesse Brandeburg

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2008-10-02 23:33 [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 0/6] e1000e mutex protection Jesse Brandeburg
2008-10-02 23:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 1/6] e1000e: reset swflag after resetting hardware Jesse Brandeburg
2008-10-02 23:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 2/6] e1000e: do not ever sleep in interrupt context Jesse Brandeburg
2008-10-03  0:36   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-02 23:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 3/6] e1000e: remove phy read from inside spinlock Jesse Brandeburg
2008-10-03  0:37   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-02 23:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 4/6] e1000e: drop stats lock Jesse Brandeburg
2008-10-03  0:38   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-02 23:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 5/6] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG Jesse Brandeburg
2008-10-03 11:47   ` Jiri Kosina
2008-10-03 15:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-03 15:39       ` Jiri Kosina
2008-10-03 19:38         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-02 23:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.27-rc8 6/6] e1000e: update version from k4 to k6 Jesse Brandeburg

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