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net: don't grab a mutex within a timer context in gianfar

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I got the following backtrace while network was unavailble:

|NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
|BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6-powerpc/kernel/mutex.c:87
|in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
|Call Trace:
|[c0383d90] [c0006dd8] show_stack+0x48/0x184 (unreliable)
|[c0383db0] [c001e938] __might_sleep+0xe0/0xf4
|[c0383dc0] [c025a43c] mutex_lock+0x24/0x3c
|[c0383de0] [c019005c] phy_stop+0x20/0x70
|[c0383df0] [c018d4ec] stop_gfar+0x28/0xf4
|[c0383e10] [c018e8c4] gfar_timeout+0x30/0x60
|[c0383e20] [c01fe7c0] dev_watchdog+0xa8/0x144
|[c0383e30] [c002f93c] run_timer_softirq+0x148/0x1c8
|[c0383e60] [c002b084] __do_softirq+0x5c/0xc4
|[c0383e80] [c00046fc] do_softirq+0x3c/0x54
|[c0383e90] [c002ac60] irq_exit+0x3c/0x5c
|[c0383ea0] [c000b378] timer_interrupt+0xe0/0xf8
|[c0383ec0] [c000e5ac] ret_from_except+0x0/0x18
|[c0383f80] [c000804c] cpu_idle+0xcc/0xdc
|[c0383fa0] [c025c07c] etext+0x7c/0x90
|[c0383fc0] [c0338960] start_kernel+0x294/0x2a8
|[c0383ff0] [c00003dc] skpinv+0x304/0x340
|------------[ cut here ]------------

The phylock was once a spinlock but got changed into a mutex via
commit 35b5f6b1a aka [PHYLIB: Locking fixes for PHY I/O potentially sleeping]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Sebastian Siewior 2008-08-19 21:12:45 +02:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
parent edcfe5f7e3
commit ab9399059b
2 changed files with 19 additions and 4 deletions
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drivers/net/gianfar.c
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@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ const char gfar_driver_version[] = "1.3";
static int gfar_enet_open(struct net_device *dev);
static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
static void gfar_reset_task(struct work_struct *work);
static void gfar_timeout(struct net_device *dev);
static int gfar_close(struct net_device *dev);
struct sk_buff *gfar_new_skb(struct net_device *dev);
@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
spin_lock_init(&priv->txlock);
spin_lock_init(&priv->rxlock);
spin_lock_init(&priv->bflock);
INIT_WORK(&priv->reset_task, gfar_reset_task);
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, dev);
@ -1212,6 +1214,7 @@ static int gfar_close(struct net_device *dev)
napi_disable(&priv->napi);
cancel_work_sync(&priv->reset_task);
stop_gfar(dev);
/* Disconnect from the PHY */
@ -1326,13 +1329,16 @@ static int gfar_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
return 0;
}
/* gfar_timeout gets called when a packet has not been
/* gfar_reset_task gets scheduled when a packet has not been
* transmitted after a set amount of time.
* For now, assume that clearing out all the structures, and
* starting over will fix the problem. */
static void gfar_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
* starting over will fix the problem.
*/
static void gfar_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
{
dev->stats.tx_errors++;
struct gfar_private *priv = container_of(work, struct gfar_private,
reset_task);
struct net_device *dev = priv->dev;
if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
stop_gfar(dev);
@ -1342,6 +1348,14 @@ static void gfar_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
netif_tx_schedule_all(dev);
}
static void gfar_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct gfar_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
dev->stats.tx_errors++;
schedule_work(&priv->reset_task);
}
/* Interrupt Handler for Transmit complete */
static int gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct net_device *dev)
{

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drivers/net/gianfar.h
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@ -756,6 +756,7 @@ struct gfar_private {
uint32_t msg_enable;
struct work_struct reset_task;
/* Network Statistics */
struct gfar_extra_stats extra_stats;
};