This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: mv643xx_eth: update statistics timer from timer context only to the 3.10-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: net-mv643xx_eth-update-statistics-timer-from-timer-context-only.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 117aa3e23dcc332b2617bf92dd2890329dd5866a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:57:20 +0200 Subject: net: mv643xx_eth: update statistics timer from timer context only From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 041b4ddb84989f06ff1df0ca869b950f1ee3cb1c ] Each port driver installs a periodic timer to update port statistics by calling mib_counters_update. As mib_counters_update is also called from non-timer context, we should not reschedule the timer there but rather move it to timer-only context. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c @@ -1125,15 +1125,13 @@ static void mib_counters_update(struct m p->rx_discard += rdlp(mp, RX_DISCARD_FRAME_CNT); p->rx_overrun += rdlp(mp, RX_OVERRUN_FRAME_CNT); spin_unlock_bh(&mp->mib_counters_lock); - - mod_timer(&mp->mib_counters_timer, jiffies + 30 * HZ); } static void mib_counters_timer_wrapper(unsigned long _mp) { struct mv643xx_eth_private *mp = (void *)_mp; - mib_counters_update(mp); + mod_timer(&mp->mib_counters_timer, jiffies + 30 * HZ); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/net-mv643xx_eth-update-statistics-timer-from-timer-context-only.patch queue-3.10/net-mv643xx_eth-fix-orphaned-statistics-timer-crash.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html