Re: [2.6.37-rc1, patch v2] r8169: fix sleeping while holding spinlock...

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Nov 01 2010 - 23:46:56 EST


On Tuesday, November 02, 2010, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> Hi Francois,
>
> On 1 November 2010 23:46, Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> :
> >> Recent changes to the r8169 driver cause it to call
> >> device_set_wakeup_enable under spinlock, which may sleep.
> >
> > The change is fine but the description is misleading : the r8169
> > driver has been issuing device_set_wakeup_enable under spinlock since
> > october 2008. device_set_wakeup_enable did not sleep until recently
> > (see f2dc0d1809ab7e0147c7e4ac837be1682f706538 for instance).

Yes, sorry about that. I overlooked the fact that these drivers called
device_set_wakeup_enable() under spinlocks.

> Good catch; I also find that only the gainfar is the other driver
> needing fixing; I'll follow up with this.

Thanks a lot for taking care of this!

> Patch with updated description for David:
>
> As device_set_wakeup_enable can now sleep, move the call to outside
> the critical section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
> index d88ce9f..894e7c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
> @@ -846,10 +846,10 @@ static int rtl8169_set_wol(struct net_device
> *dev, struct ethtool_wolinfo *wol)
> else
> tp->features &= ~RTL_FEATURE_WOL;
> __rtl8169_set_wol(tp, wol->wolopts);
> - device_set_wakeup_enable(&tp->pci_dev->dev, wol->wolopts);
> -
> spin_unlock_irq(&tp->lock);
>
> + device_set_wakeup_enable(&tp->pci_dev->dev, wol->wolopts);
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
>

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