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authorMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>2007-09-28 22:42:12 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:53:54 -0700
commit9ff8c68b3c722f732c7a13d6631b149cca8c7091 (patch)
treeec0dd0762f9652d30fff30228406bcd0417f6063 /drivers/net/forcedeth.c
parent1f8f4559f8c5829348a010a9e0bbb423310060d1 (diff)
PHYLIB: Spinlock fixes for softirqs
Use spin_lock_bh()/spin_unlock_bh() for the phydev lock throughout as it is used in phy_timer() that is called as a softirq and all the other operations may happen in the user context. There has been a change recently that did such a conversion for some of the operations on the lock, but some have been left intact. Many of them, perhaps all, may be called in the user context and I was able to trigger recursive spinlock acquisition indeed, so I think for the sake of long-term maintenance it is best to convert them all, even if unnecessarily for one or two -- better safe than sorry. Perhaps one in phy_timer() could actually be skipped as only called as a softirq -- I can send an update if that sounds like a good idea. Checked with checkpatch.pl and at the runtime. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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