From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason , Amir Vadai , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 3.14 052/140] mlx4_en: dont use napi_synchronize inside mlx4_en_netpoll Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:33:11 -0700 Message-Id: <20140529043056.121896578@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140529043049.661315084@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140529043049.661315084@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chris Mason commit c98235cb8584a72e95786e17d695a8e5fafcd766 upstream. The mlx4 driver is triggering schedules while atomic inside mlx4_en_netpoll: spin_lock_irqsave(&cq->lock, flags); napi_synchronize(&cq->napi); ^^^^^ msleep here mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(dev, cq, 0); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cq->lock, flags); This was part of a patch by Alexander Guller from Mellanox in 2011, but it still isn't upstream. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason Acked-By: Amir Vadai Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 6 +----- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h | 1 - 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ int mlx4_en_create_cq(struct mlx4_en_pri cq->ring = ring; cq->is_tx = mode; - spin_lock_init(&cq->lock); /* Allocate HW buffers on provided NUMA node. * dev->numa_node is used in mtt range allocation flow. --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c @@ -1315,15 +1315,11 @@ static void mlx4_en_netpoll(struct net_d { struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev); struct mlx4_en_cq *cq; - unsigned long flags; int i; for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) { cq = priv->rx_cq[i]; - spin_lock_irqsave(&cq->lock, flags); - napi_synchronize(&cq->napi); - mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(dev, cq, 0); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cq->lock, flags); + napi_schedule(&cq->napi); } } #endif --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h @@ -309,7 +309,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_cq { struct mlx4_cq mcq; struct mlx4_hwq_resources wqres; int ring; - spinlock_t lock; struct net_device *dev; struct napi_struct napi; int size;