linux-kernel - [PATCH] ib/ehca: init irq tasklet before irq can happen

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Message-ID: <20100705134156.36803536@alex-laptop>
Date:	Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:41:56 +0200
From:	Alexander Schmidt <alexs@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Linux RDMA <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@...ibm.com>,
	Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ib/ehca: init irq tasklet before irq can happen

Initialize tasklet before interrupts are requested to prevent scheduling of
uninitialized tasklet.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Schmidt <alexs@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Hi Roland, please queue this fix for 2.6.36, thanks!

 drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_eq.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_eq.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_eq.c
@@ -122,21 +122,21 @@ int ehca_create_eq(struct ehca_shca *shc
 
 	/* register interrupt handlers and initialize work queues */
 	if (type == EHCA_EQ) {
+		tasklet_init(&eq->interrupt_task, ehca_tasklet_eq, (long)shca);
+
 		ret = ibmebus_request_irq(eq->ist, ehca_interrupt_eq,
 					  IRQF_DISABLED, "ehca_eq",
 					  (void *)shca);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			ehca_err(ib_dev, "Can't map interrupt handler.");
-
-		tasklet_init(&eq->interrupt_task, ehca_tasklet_eq, (long)shca);
 	} else if (type == EHCA_NEQ) {
+		tasklet_init(&eq->interrupt_task, ehca_tasklet_neq, (long)shca);
+
 		ret = ibmebus_request_irq(eq->ist, ehca_interrupt_neq,
 					  IRQF_DISABLED, "ehca_neq",
 					  (void *)shca);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			ehca_err(ib_dev, "Can't map interrupt handler.");
-
-		tasklet_init(&eq->interrupt_task, ehca_tasklet_neq, (long)shca);
 	}
 
 	eq->is_initialized = 1;
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