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From: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: 2.6.7 error message (oops)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:03:16 +0200
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On Tuesday 22 June 2004 12:47, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de> wrote:
> > I just booted 2.6.7 on one of our systems and see this oops from dmesg:
> >
> > eth11: network connection down
> > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > include/asm/semaphore.h:119
> > in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1
> > [<c01072ae>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
> > [<c0121690>] __might_sleep+0xb0/0xe0
> > [<c0433ecb>] netdev_run_todo+0x2b/0x290
> > [<c04338e9>] dev_ioctl+0x269/0x300
> > [<c0476e0c>] inet_ioctl+0x8c/0xa0
> > [<c04292c8>] sock_ioctl+0x138/0x350
> > [<c017e2b4>] sys_ioctl+0x144/0x2d0
> > [<c01063bf>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >
> > The device eth11 is the (ifrename) mapped eth1:
> >
> > sk98lin: Network Device Driver v6.23
>
> OK the locking in this driver needs to be reviewed and simplified.
>
> In this case it's doing two spin_lock_irqsave() calls in a row on the
> same flags variable.
>
> Does this patch fix your problem?
>

Thanks a lot, your patch fixed this problem! Though I had to apply it 
manually, since patch somehow didn't like it. Maybe it got broken when you 
sent the mail?

Attached is the re-diffed patch (looks completely identical to me, but diff 
says the whitespace is different):


Thanks,
	Bernd



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--- skge.c.bak	Tue Jun 22 13:13:51 2004
+++ skge.c	Tue Jun 22 13:30:40 2004
@@ -3093,8 +3093,7 @@
 	SkEventDispatcher(pAC, pAC->IoBase);
 
 	for (i=0; i<pAC->GIni.GIMacsFound; i++) {
-		spin_lock_irqsave(
-			&pAC->TxPort[i][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock, Flags);
+		spin_lock(&pAC->TxPort[i][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock);
 		netif_stop_queue(pAC->dev[i]);
 
 	}
@@ -4773,12 +4772,10 @@
 		spin_lock_irqsave(
 			&pAC->TxPort[FromPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock,
 			Flags);
-		spin_lock_irqsave(
-			&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock, Flags);
+		spin_lock(&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock);
 		SkGeStopPort(pAC, IoC, FromPort, SK_STOP_ALL, SK_SOFT_RST);
 		SkGeStopPort(pAC, IoC, ToPort, SK_STOP_ALL, SK_SOFT_RST);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(
-			&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock, Flags);
+		spin_unlock(&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(
 			&pAC->TxPort[FromPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock,
 			Flags);
@@ -4791,8 +4788,7 @@
 		spin_lock_irqsave(
 			&pAC->TxPort[FromPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock,
 			Flags);
-		spin_lock_irqsave(
-			&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock, Flags);
+		spin_lock(&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock);
 		pAC->ActivePort = ToPort;
 #if 0
 		SetQueueSizes(pAC);
@@ -4807,8 +4803,7 @@
 			pAC,
 			pAC->ActivePort,
 			DualNet)) {
-			spin_unlock_irqrestore(
-				&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock, Flags);
+			spin_unlock(&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock);
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(
 				&pAC->TxPort[FromPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock,
 				Flags);
@@ -4834,8 +4829,7 @@
 		SkGePollTxD(pAC, IoC, ToPort, SK_TRUE);
 		ClearAndStartRx(pAC, FromPort);
 		ClearAndStartRx(pAC, ToPort);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(
-			&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock, Flags);
+		spin_unlock(&pAC->TxPort[ToPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(
 			&pAC->TxPort[FromPort][TX_PRIO_LOW].TxDesRingLock,
 			Flags);

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