netdev - Re: [PATCH] qlcnic - Fix scheduling while atomic bug

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:26:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Narendra_K@...l.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sony.chacko@...gic.com,
	jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qlcnic - Fix scheduling while atomic bug

From: <Narendra_K@...l.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:53:19 -0700

> From: Narendra K <narendra_k@...l.com>
> 
> In the device close path, 'qlcnic_fw_destroy_ctx' and
> 'qlcnic_poll_rsp' call msleep. But  'qlcnic_fw_destroy_ctx' and
> 'qlcnic_poll_rsp' are called with 'adapter->tx_clean_lock' spin lock
> held resulting in scheduling while atomic bug causing the following
> trace.
> 
> I observed that the commit 012dc19a45b2b9cc2ebd14aaa401cf782c2abba4
> from John Fastabend addresses a similar issue in ixgbevf driver.
> Adopting the same approach used in the commit, this patch uses mdelay
> to address the issue.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Narendra K <narendra_k@...l.com>

Applied, thanks.

In the future please format your Subject lines for patches as
"subsytem: Description."  instead of this "subsystem - Description."
layout.

Thanks.
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