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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 10:27:11 +0200
From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...il.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo
Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Christophe
Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, Florian Fainelli
<f.fainelli@...il.com>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, Herve Codina <herve.codina@...tlin.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/7] net: ethernet: fs_enet: drop the
.adjust_link custom fs_ops
Hi Andrew,
On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:06:08 +0200
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> > @@ -649,12 +649,7 @@ static void fs_adjust_link(struct net_device *dev)
> > unsigned long flags;
> >
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&fep->lock, flags);
> > -
> > - if (fep->ops->adjust_link)
> > - fep->ops->adjust_link(dev);
> > - else
> > - generic_adjust_link(dev);
> > -
> > + generic_adjust_link(dev);
> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fep->lock, flags);
>
> Holding a spinlock is pretty unusual. We are in thread context, and
> the phydev mutex is held. Looking at generic_adjust_link, do any of
> the fep->foo variables actually need protecting, particularly from
> changes in interrupts context?
Yes there are, the interrupt mask/event registers are being accessed
from the interrupt handler and the ->restart() hook. I can try to
rework this a bit for a cleaner interrupt handling, but I don't have
means to test this on all mac flavors (fec/fcc/scc) :(
Thanks for reviewing this,
Maxime
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