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Message-Id: <200807031618.46087.ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:18:45 +0100
From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
"Jan-Bernd Themann" <themann@...ibm.com>,
"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-ppc" <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
Marcus Eder <meder@...ibm.com>,
Thomas Klein <tklein@...ibm.com>, kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
hering2@...ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem
A mutex has to be replaced by spinlocks as it can be called from
a context which does not allow sleeping.
The kzalloc flag GFP_KERNEL has to be replaced by GFP_ATOMIC
for the same reason.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@...ibm.com>
---
diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.26-rc8/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h
--- linux-2.6.26-rc8/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h 2008-06-25 03:58:20.000000000 +0200
+++ patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h 2008-07-02 12:38:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ struct ehea_bcmc_reg_entry {
struct ehea_bcmc_reg_array {
struct ehea_bcmc_reg_entry *arr;
int num_entries;
- struct mutex lock;
+ spinlock_t lock;
};
#define EHEA_PORT_UP 1
diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.26-rc8/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
--- linux-2.6.26-rc8/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c 2008-06-25 03:58:20.000000000 +0200
+++ patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c 2008-07-02 12:38:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static void ehea_update_bcmc_registratio
}
if (num_registrations) {
- arr = kzalloc(num_registrations * sizeof(*arr), GFP_KERNEL);
+ arr = kzalloc(num_registrations * sizeof(*arr), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!arr)
return; /* Keep the existing array */
} else
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static struct net_device_stats *ehea_get
memset(stats, 0, sizeof(*stats));
- cb2 = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cb2 = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!cb2) {
ehea_error("no mem for cb2");
goto out;
@@ -1763,7 +1763,7 @@ static int ehea_set_mac_addr(struct net_
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, mac_addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
- mutex_lock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_lock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
/* Deregister old MAC in pHYP */
if (port->state == EHEA_PORT_UP) {
@@ -1785,7 +1785,7 @@ static int ehea_set_mac_addr(struct net_
out_upregs:
ehea_update_bcmc_registrations();
- mutex_unlock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_unlock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
out_free:
kfree(cb0);
out:
@@ -1947,7 +1947,7 @@ static void ehea_set_multicast_list(stru
}
ehea_promiscuous(dev, 0);
- mutex_lock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_lock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
if (dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) {
ehea_allmulti(dev, 1);
@@ -1978,7 +1978,7 @@ static void ehea_set_multicast_list(stru
}
out:
ehea_update_bcmc_registrations();
- mutex_unlock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_unlock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
return;
}
@@ -2497,7 +2497,7 @@ static int ehea_up(struct net_device *de
}
}
- mutex_lock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_lock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
ret = ehea_broadcast_reg_helper(port, H_REG_BCMC);
if (ret) {
@@ -2520,7 +2520,7 @@ out:
ehea_info("Failed starting %s. ret=%i", dev->name, ret);
ehea_update_bcmc_registrations();
- mutex_unlock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_unlock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
ehea_update_firmware_handles();
mutex_unlock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
@@ -2575,7 +2575,7 @@ static int ehea_down(struct net_device *
mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
- mutex_lock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_lock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
ehea_drop_multicast_list(dev);
ehea_broadcast_reg_helper(port, H_DEREG_BCMC);
@@ -2584,7 +2584,7 @@ static int ehea_down(struct net_device *
port->state = EHEA_PORT_DOWN;
ehea_update_bcmc_registrations();
- mutex_unlock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_unlock(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
ret = ehea_clean_all_portres(port);
if (ret)
@@ -3590,7 +3590,7 @@ int __init ehea_module_init(void)
memset(&ehea_bcmc_regs, 0, sizeof(ehea_bcmc_regs));
mutex_init(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
- mutex_init(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
+ spin_lock_init(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
ret = check_module_parm();
if (ret)
--
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