netdev - Re: [PATCH] dm9000: fix "BUG: spinlock recursion"

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Date:	Mon, 17 May 2010 22:48:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	baruch@...s.co.il
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org, s.hauer@...gutronix.de,
	ben-linux@...ff.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm9000: fix "BUG: spinlock recursion"

From: Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 13:06:47 +0300

> dm9000_set_rx_csum and dm9000_hash_table are called from atomic context (in
> dm9000_init_dm9000), and from non-atomic context (via ethtool_ops and
> net_device_ops respectively). This causes a spinlock recursion BUG. Fix this by
> renaming these functions to *_unlocked for the atomic context, and make the
> original functions locking wrappers for use in the non-atomic context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>

Applied.
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