From ab9399059bb85a94758f42fb25607e440e926cc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Siewior Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:12:45 +0200 Subject: net: don't grab a mutex within a timer context in gianfar 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 Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/gianfar.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/net/gianfar.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net') diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c index 999d6916827..4320a983a58 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c @@ -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) { diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.h b/drivers/net/gianfar.h index d59df98bd63..f46e9b63af1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar.h +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.h @@ -756,6 +756,7 @@ struct gfar_private { uint32_t msg_enable; + struct work_struct reset_task; /* Network Statistics */ struct gfar_extra_stats extra_stats; }; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2