qlcnic: Remove holding api lock while taking the dump
authorAnirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:52:18 +0000 (02:52 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:17:06 +0000 (01:17 -0700)
With the change in logic for taking FW dump across multiple drivers,
there is no need to hold onto the api lock anymore in the fw dump path.
Instead use rtnl_lock() to synchronize the access to FW dump data structs.

Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c

index 8ea8001..e183ed2 100644 (file)
@@ -986,8 +986,6 @@ qlcnic_get_dump_data(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_dump *dump,
        struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
        struct qlcnic_fw_dump *fw_dump = &adapter->ahw->fw_dump;
 
-       if (qlcnic_api_lock(adapter))
-               return -EIO;
        if (!fw_dump->clr) {
                netdev_info(netdev, "Dump not available\n");
                qlcnic_api_unlock(adapter);
@@ -1009,7 +1007,6 @@ qlcnic_get_dump_data(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_dump *dump,
        vfree(fw_dump->data);
        fw_dump->data = NULL;
        fw_dump->clr = 0;
-       qlcnic_api_unlock(adapter);
 
        return 0;
 }
@@ -1032,10 +1029,7 @@ qlcnic_set_dump(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_dump *val)
                                ret = -EINVAL;
                                goto out;
                }
-               if (qlcnic_api_lock(adapter))
-                       return -EIO;
                fw_dump->tmpl_hdr->drv_cap_mask = val->flag & 0xff;
-               qlcnic_api_unlock(adapter);
                netdev_info(netdev, "Driver mask changed to: 0x%x\n",
                        fw_dump->tmpl_hdr->drv_cap_mask);
        }
index 0ddbb80..a656a12 100644 (file)
@@ -2846,13 +2846,15 @@ skip_ack_check:
                        set_bit(__QLCNIC_START_FW, &adapter->state);
                        QLCDB(adapter, DRV, "Restarting fw\n");
                        qlcnic_idc_debug_info(adapter, 0);
-                       QLCDB(adapter, DRV, "Take FW dump\n");
-                       qlcnic_dump_fw(adapter);
-                       adapter->flags &= ~QLCNIC_FW_RESET_OWNER;
                }
 
                qlcnic_api_unlock(adapter);
 
+               rtnl_lock();
+               QLCDB(adapter, DRV, "Take FW dump\n");
+               qlcnic_dump_fw(adapter);
+               adapter->flags &= ~QLCNIC_FW_RESET_OWNER;
+               rtnl_unlock();
                if (!adapter->nic_ops->start_firmware(adapter)) {
                        qlcnic_schedule_work(adapter, qlcnic_attach_work, 0);
                        adapter->fw_wait_cnt = 0;