netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: vmxnet3 fixes [4/5] Do not reset when the device is not opened

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Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:17:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"pv-drivers@...are.com" <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
	Ronghua Zhang <ronghua@...are.com>,
	Matthieu Bucchianeri <matthieu@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: vmxnet3 fixes [4/5] Do not reset
 when the device is not opened



On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, David Miller wrote:

> From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:20:52 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > Is this what you suggest :
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Hold rtnl_lock to get the right link state.
> 
> It ought to work, but make sure that it is legal to take the
> RTNL semaphore in all contexts in which this code block
> might be called.
> 

This code block is called only from the workqueue handler, which runs in
process context, so it is legal to take rtnl semaphore.
Tested this code by simulating event interrupts (which schedule this 
code) at considerable frequency while the interface was brought up and
down in a loop. Similar stress testing had revealed the bug originally. 
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