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Date:	Tue, 2 Nov 2010 04:45:23 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com>
Cc:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.37-rc1, patch v2] r8169: fix sleeping while holding spinlock...

On Tuesday, November 02, 2010, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> Hi Francois,
> 
> On 1 November 2010 23:46, Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> wrote:
> > Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com> :
> >> Recent changes to the r8169 driver cause it to call
> >> device_set_wakeup_enable under spinlock, which may sleep.
> >
> > The change is fine but the description is misleading : the r8169
> > driver has been issuing device_set_wakeup_enable under spinlock since
> > october 2008. device_set_wakeup_enable did not sleep until recently
> > (see f2dc0d1809ab7e0147c7e4ac837be1682f706538 for instance).

Yes, sorry about that.  I overlooked the fact that these drivers called
device_set_wakeup_enable() under spinlocks.

> Good catch; I also find that only the gainfar is the other driver
> needing fixing; I'll follow up with this.

Thanks a lot for taking care of this!

> Patch with updated description for David:
> 
> As device_set_wakeup_enable can now sleep, move the call to outside
> the critical section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
> index d88ce9f..894e7c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
> @@ -846,10 +846,10 @@ static int rtl8169_set_wol(struct net_device
> *dev, struct ethtool_wolinfo *wol)
>  	else
>  		tp->features &= ~RTL_FEATURE_WOL;
>  	__rtl8169_set_wol(tp, wol->wolopts);
> -	device_set_wakeup_enable(&tp->pci_dev->dev, wol->wolopts);
> -
>  	spin_unlock_irq(&tp->lock);
> 
> +	device_set_wakeup_enable(&tp->pci_dev->dev, wol->wolopts);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 
> 

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