Re: [BUG REPORT 2.6.0] cisco airo_cs scheduling while atomic

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 16:04:14 EST


James Bourne <jbourne@hardrock.org> wrote:
>
> The Cisco Airo card driver calls schedule while atomic in the function
> issuecommand in drivers/net/wireless/airo.c line 2388.
>
>
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: bad: scheduling while atomic!
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: [<c0119754>] schedule+0x3c4/0x3d0
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: [<d18cbb51>] sendcommand+0xa1/0xe0 [airo]
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: [<d18cba80>] issuecommand+0x60/0x90 [airo]
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: [<d18cc001>] PC4500_accessrid+0x41/0x80 [airo]
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: [<d18cc0a3>] PC4500_readrid+0x63/0x130 [airo]
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: [<d18c95d9>] readStatsRid+0x29/0x50 [airo]
> Jul 17 15:27:10 localhost kernel: [<d18c9c0a>] airo_get_stats+0x2a/0xe0 [airo]

I've been waiting months for someone to test this patch. Can you please do
so?

diff -puN drivers/net/wireless/airo.c~airo-schedule-fix drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
--- 25/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c~airo-schedule-fix 2003-06-26 17:37:47.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c 2003-06-26 17:37:47.000000000 -0700
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include <linux/ioport.h>
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/pci.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PCI
@@ -2379,20 +2380,26 @@ static u16 setup_card(struct airo_info *
 static u16 issuecommand(struct airo_info *ai, Cmd *pCmd, Resp *pRsp) {
         // Im really paranoid about letting it run forever!
         int max_tries = 600000;
+ static int max = 0;
+ int count = 0;
 
         if (sendcommand(ai, pCmd) == (u16)ERROR)
                 return ERROR;
 
         while (max_tries-- && (IN4500(ai, EVSTAT) & EV_CMD) == 0) {
- if (!in_interrupt() && (max_tries & 255) == 0)
- schedule();
+ udelay(1);
+ count++;
         }
- if ( max_tries == -1 ) {
+ if (max_tries == -1) {
                 printk( KERN_ERR
                         "airo: Max tries exceeded waiting for command\n" );
                 return ERROR;
         }
         completecommand(ai, pRsp);
+ if (count > max) {
+ max = count;
+ printk("%s: max delay = %d usec\n", __FUNCTION__, max);
+ }
         return SUCCESS;
 }
 

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