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authorAbhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>2009-04-30 13:56:26 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-05-06 15:14:59 -0400
commit722404983b9deb21e4f786224201ca2ab27a1c48 (patch)
tree97b1e9de442c5c3aad267743abf23a6177e33cdb /drivers/net
parent84379cba44042a4caf793f821be8bd1a9b8235c2 (diff)
iwl3945: fix lock dependency
Patch seperates rx_used and rx_free into two different atomic contexts. We can now avoid using GFP_ATOMIC for skb allocation and use GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c37
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 5cd4321d7cf..dc0359ce1ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -1344,15 +1344,24 @@ static void iwl3945_rx_allocate(struct iwl_priv *priv)
struct list_head *element;
struct iwl_rx_mem_buffer *rxb;
unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
- while (!list_empty(&rxq->rx_used)) {
+
+ while (1) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
+
+ if (list_empty(&rxq->rx_used)) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
+ return;
+ }
+
element = rxq->rx_used.next;
rxb = list_entry(element, struct iwl_rx_mem_buffer, list);
+ list_del(element);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
/* Alloc a new receive buffer */
rxb->skb =
alloc_skb(priv->hw_params.rx_buf_size,
- __GFP_NOWARN | GFP_ATOMIC);
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rxb->skb) {
if (net_ratelimit())
IWL_CRIT(priv, ": Can not allocate SKB buffers\n");
@@ -1370,18 +1379,18 @@ static void iwl3945_rx_allocate(struct iwl_priv *priv)
*/
skb_reserve(rxb->skb, 4);
- priv->alloc_rxb_skb++;
- list_del(element);
-
/* Get physical address of RB/SKB */
rxb->real_dma_addr = pci_map_single(priv->pci_dev,
rxb->skb->data,
priv->hw_params.rx_buf_size,
PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
list_add_tail(&rxb->list, &rxq->rx_free);
+ priv->alloc_rxb_skb++;
rxq->free_count++;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
}
void iwl3945_rx_queue_reset(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_rx_queue *rxq)
@@ -1414,18 +1423,6 @@ void iwl3945_rx_queue_reset(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_rx_queue *rxq)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
}
-/*
- * this should be called while priv->lock is locked
- */
-static void __iwl3945_rx_replenish(void *data)
-{
- struct iwl_priv *priv = data;
-
- iwl3945_rx_allocate(priv);
- iwl3945_rx_queue_restock(priv);
-}
-
-
void iwl3945_rx_replenish(void *data)
{
struct iwl_priv *priv = data;
@@ -1644,7 +1641,7 @@ static void iwl3945_rx_handle(struct iwl_priv *priv)
count++;
if (count >= 8) {
priv->rxq.read = i;
- __iwl3945_rx_replenish(priv);
+ iwl3945_rx_queue_restock(priv);
count = 0;
}
}