From: Chris Mason Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:09:24 +0000 (-0400) Subject: mlx4_en: don't use napi_synchronize inside mlx4_en_netpoll X-Git-Tag: v3.2.59~29 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef70c6017f97d09111515ac2d6d98d07559794e1;p=pandora-kernel.git mlx4_en: don't use napi_synchronize inside mlx4_en_netpoll commit c98235cb8584a72e95786e17d695a8e5fafcd766 upstream. The mlx4 driver is triggering schedules while atomic inside mlx4_en_netpoll: spin_lock_irqsave(&cq->lock, flags); napi_synchronize(&cq->napi); ^^^^^ msleep here mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(dev, cq, 0); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cq->lock, flags); This was part of a patch by Alexander Guller from Mellanox in 2011, but it still isn't upstream. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason Acked-By: Amir Vadai Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c index 5829e0b47e7e..ba7c861e2b93 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c @@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ int mlx4_en_create_cq(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv, cq->ring = ring; cq->is_tx = mode; - spin_lock_init(&cq->lock); err = mlx4_alloc_hwq_res(mdev->dev, &cq->wqres, cq->buf_size, 2 * PAGE_SIZE); diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c index 78d776bc355c..308349a43d60 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c @@ -355,15 +355,11 @@ static void mlx4_en_netpoll(struct net_device *dev) { struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev); struct mlx4_en_cq *cq; - unsigned long flags; int i; for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) { cq = &priv->rx_cq[i]; - spin_lock_irqsave(&cq->lock, flags); - napi_synchronize(&cq->napi); - mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(dev, cq, 0); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cq->lock, flags); + napi_schedule(&cq->napi); } } #endif diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h index 207b5add3ca8..492055885109 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h @@ -300,7 +300,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_cq { struct mlx4_cq mcq; struct mlx4_hwq_resources wqres; int ring; - spinlock_t lock; struct net_device *dev; struct napi_struct napi; /* Per-core Tx cq processing support */