This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sfc: lock TX queues when calling netif_device_detach()
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sfc-lock-tx-queues-when-calling-netif_device_detach.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6ea7ff1378aeff3d33d3a91180b8d1f3d0869350 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Pieczko <dpieczko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:21:23 +0100
Subject: sfc: lock TX queues when calling netif_device_detach()
From: Daniel Pieczko <dpieczko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit c2f3b8e3a44b6fe9e36704e30157ebe1a88c08b1 ]
The assertion of netif_device_present() at the top of
efx_hard_start_xmit() may fail if we don't do this.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h | 13 +++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
@@ -2224,7 +2224,7 @@ int efx_reset(struct efx_nic *efx, enum
netif_info(efx, drv, efx->net_dev, "resetting (%s)\n",
RESET_TYPE(method));
- netif_device_detach(efx->net_dev);
+ efx_device_detach_sync(efx);
efx_reset_down(efx, method);
rc = efx->type->reset(efx, method);
@@ -2718,7 +2718,7 @@ static int efx_pm_freeze(struct device *
efx->state = STATE_FINI;
- netif_device_detach(efx->net_dev);
+ efx_device_detach_sync(efx);
efx_stop_all(efx);
efx_stop_interrupts(efx, false);
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h
@@ -162,4 +162,17 @@ extern void efx_link_status_changed(stru
extern void efx_link_set_advertising(struct efx_nic *efx, u32);
extern void efx_link_set_wanted_fc(struct efx_nic *efx, u8);
+static inline void efx_device_detach_sync(struct efx_nic *efx)
+{
+ struct net_device *dev = efx->net_dev;
+
+ /* Lock/freeze all TX queues so that we can be sure the
+ * TX scheduler is stopped when we're done and before
+ * netif_device_present() becomes false.
+ */
+ netif_tx_lock(dev);
+ netif_device_detach(dev);
+ netif_tx_unlock(dev);
+}
+
#endif /* EFX_EFX_H */
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ int efx_selftest(struct efx_nic *efx, st
/* Detach the device so the kernel doesn't transmit during the
* loopback test and the watchdog timeout doesn't fire.
*/
- netif_device_detach(efx->net_dev);
+ efx_device_detach_sync(efx);
mutex_lock(&efx->mac_lock);
if (efx->loopback_modes) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dpieczko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/sfc-work-around-flush-timeout-when-flushes-have-completed.patch
queue-3.4/sfc-lock-tx-queues-when-calling-netif_device_detach.patch
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