netdev - [PATCH for-net 1/2] net/mlx5_core: Call synchronize

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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:57:26 +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 1/2] net/mlx5_core: Call synchronize_irq() before freeing EQ buffer

After destroying the EQ, the object responsible for generating interrupts, call
synchronize_irq() to ensure that any handler routines running on other CPU
cores finish execution. Only then free the EQ buffer. This patch solves a very
rare case when we get panic on driver unload.
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/mlx5/core/eq.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c
index ed53291468f3..a278238a2db6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c
@@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ int mlx5_destroy_unmap_eq(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, struct mlx5_eq *eq)
 	if (err)
 		mlx5_core_warn(dev, "failed to destroy a previously created eq: eqn %d\n",
 			       eq->eqn);
+	synchronize_irq(table->msix_arr[eq->irqn].vector);
 	mlx5_buf_free(dev, &eq->buf);

 	return err;
-- 
2.1.2

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