netdev - [PATCH for-net 2/2] net/mlx4_core: Call synchronize

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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:57:27 +0300
From:	Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH for-net 2/2] net/mlx4_core: Call synchronize_irq() before freeing EQ buffer

After moving the EQ ownership to software effectively destroying it, call
synchronize_irq() to ensure that any handler routines running on other CPU
cores finish execution. Only then free the EQ buffer.
The same thing is done when we destroy a CQ which is one of the sources
generating interrupts. In the case of CQ we want to avoid completion handlers
on a CQ that was destroyed. In the case we do the same to avoid receiving
asynchronous events after the EQ has been destroyed and its buffers freed.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c
index a49c9d11d8a5..49290a405903 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c
@@ -1026,6 +1026,7 @@ static void mlx4_free_eq(struct mlx4_dev *dev,
 				pr_cont("\n");
 		}
 	}
+	synchronize_irq(eq->irq);

 	mlx4_mtt_cleanup(dev, &eq->mtt);
 	for (i = 0; i < npages; ++i)
-- 
2.1.2

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