Re: Linux v2.6.17

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Sun Jun 18 2006 - 13:05:15 EST


On Sunday 18 June 2006 18:47, Andre Tomt wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 June 2006 03:59, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> Not a lot of changes since the last -rc, the bulk is actually some
> >> last-minute MIPS updates and s390 futex changes, the rest tend to be
> >> various very small fixes that trickled in over the last week.
> >
> > D'oh, please queue the following patch for -stable, Greg. ;)
>
> I'm unable to apply it on top a clean 2.6.17 using patch -p1 < mailfile.
>
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 1900.
> 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c.rej

Ok, I'm sorry. The patch was from wireless-dev.
Here's the adjusted patch:

--

Place the Init-vs-IRQ workaround before any card register
access, because we might not have the wireless core mapped
at all times in init. So this will result in a Machine Check
caused by a bus error.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>

Index: tmp/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
===================================================================
--- tmp.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c 2006-06-18 18:51:48.000000000 +0200
+++ tmp/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c 2006-06-18 19:02:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -1870,6 +1870,15 @@

spin_lock(&bcm->_lock);

+ /* Only accept IRQs, if we are initialized properly.
+ * This avoids an RX race while initializing.
+ * We should probably not enable IRQs before we are initialized
+ * completely, but some careful work is needed to fix this. I think it
+ * is best to stay with this cheap workaround for now... .
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!bcm->initialized))
+ goto out;
+
reason = bcm43xx_read32(bcm, BCM43xx_MMIO_GEN_IRQ_REASON);
if (reason == 0xffffffff) {
/* irq not for us (shared irq) */
@@ -1891,20 +1900,11 @@

bcm43xx_interrupt_ack(bcm, reason);

- /* Only accept IRQs, if we are initialized properly.
- * This avoids an RX race while initializing.
- * We should probably not enable IRQs before we are initialized
- * completely, but some careful work is needed to fix this. I think it
- * is best to stay with this cheap workaround for now... .
- */
- if (likely(bcm->initialized)) {
- /* disable all IRQs. They are enabled again in the bottom half. */
- bcm->irq_savedstate = bcm43xx_interrupt_disable(bcm, BCM43xx_IRQ_ALL);
- /* save the reason code and call our bottom half. */
- bcm->irq_reason = reason;
- tasklet_schedule(&bcm->isr_tasklet);
- }
-
+ /* disable all IRQs. They are enabled again in the bottom half. */
+ bcm->irq_savedstate = bcm43xx_interrupt_disable(bcm, BCM43xx_IRQ_ALL);
+ /* save the reason code and call our bottom half. */
+ bcm->irq_reason = reason;
+ tasklet_schedule(&bcm->isr_tasklet);
out:
mmiowb();
spin_unlock(&bcm->_lock);


--
Greetings Michael.
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