Subject: Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses.
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Cc: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>, alexandre.torgue@st.com,
        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 23:37:09 +0100
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Hi Pavel,

On 05.12.2016 23:02, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> we need spin_lock_bh at minimum, as we are locking user context
> against timer.
> 
> Best regards,
> 									Pavel
> 

I was referring to stmmac_tx_clean() which AFAICS is only called from softirq context,
(one time in the timer handler and one time in napi poll handler) so a spin_lock() should
be sufficient. I cant see how this is called from userspace. If it were, a spin_lock_bh() had
to be used, of course.

Regards,
Lino