sfc: Disable soft interrupt handling during efx_device_detach_sync()
authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Tue, 5 Mar 2013 01:03:47 +0000 (01:03 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:57:24 +0000 (17:57 +0000)
efx_device_detach_sync() locks all TX queues before marking the device
detached and thus disabling further TX scheduling.  But it can still
be interrupted by TX completions which then result in TX scheduling in
soft interrupt context.  This will deadlock when it tries to acquire
a TX queue lock that efx_device_detach_sync() already acquired.

To avoid deadlock, we must use netif_tx_{,un}lock_bh().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h

index 50247df..d2f790d 100644 (file)
@@ -171,9 +171,9 @@ static inline void efx_device_detach_sync(struct efx_nic *efx)
         * TX scheduler is stopped when we're done and before
         * netif_device_present() becomes false.
         */
-       netif_tx_lock(dev);
+       netif_tx_lock_bh(dev);
        netif_device_detach(dev);
-       netif_tx_unlock(dev);
+       netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev);
 }
 
 #endif /* EFX_EFX_H */