netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: via-velocity.c fix sleep-with-spinlock bug during MTU change

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Message-ID: <20080603215155.GA9712@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:51:55 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, alan@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: via-velocity.c fix sleep-with-spinlock bug during
	MTU change

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> :
[...]
> So hrm.  It could all be a lot better.  Just looking quickly at the
> code I _think_ we might be able to do all the needed allocations
> outside the lock and then swizzle them into place after taking the
> lock. ie, something as simple as:
[...]
> 	velocity_init_rd_ring(temp_vptr);	/* Can use GFP_KERNEL! */
> 
> 	spin_lock_irqsave(&vptr->lock, flags);
> 
> 	velocity_free_td_ring(vptr);
> 	velocity_free_rd_ring(vptr);
> 
> 	vptr->foo = temp_vptr->foo;
> 	vptr->bar = temp_vptr->bar;
> 	...
> 
> 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vptr->lock, flags);
> 
> ?

Almost.

I'll wrap it in the next 24 hours.

-- 
Ueimor
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