Re: [PATCH 5/8] bnxt_re: Fix race between the netdev register and unregister events

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 09:27 +0530, Somnath Kotur wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/bnxt_re.h
> > b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/bnxt_re.h
> > index b3ad37f..a25f9d2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/bnxt_re.h
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/bnxt_re.h
> > @@ -93,11 +93,13 @@ struct bnxt_re_dev {
> >         struct ib_device                ibdev;
> >         struct list_head                list;
> >         unsigned long                   flags;
> > -#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_NETDEV_REGISTERED 0
> > -#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_IBDEV_REGISTERED  1
> > -#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_GOT_MSIX          2
> > -#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_RCFW_CHANNEL_EN   8
> > -#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_QOS_WORK_REG      16
> > +#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_NETDEV_REGISTERED         0
> > +#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_IBDEV_REGISTERED          1
> > +#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_GOT_MSIX                  2
> > +#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_HAVE_L2_REF               3
> > +#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_RCFW_CHANNEL_EN           4
> > +#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_QOS_WORK_REG              5
> > +#define BNXT_RE_FLAG_TASK_IN_PROG              6
> >         struct net_device               *netdev;
>
> So, this is making two changes in once and one of the changes is not
> documented.  In particular, it looks like the usage of your flags
> elements was originally the actual value of 1 << bit, which is the
> wrong thing to pass to the *_bit() operations that want a bit number.
> So you're both adding a new used bit in your flags, but also changing
> your flags to be better numbered for use with the *_bit operations.  I
> did a quick check and the BNXT_RE_FLAGS* items are never used without
> using the bit operations, so this change is safe.  I'm going to update
> the commit log when I take this to make that clear.  Generally though,
> this should have been two patches.
Yes, the intention was to fix the incorrect usage and yes it should
have found a mention in the commit log, missed it somehow.
Thanks for taking care of that Doug

-Som


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