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author | Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> | 2006-08-11 08:56:57 -0700 |
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committer | Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> | 2006-08-11 08:56:57 -0700 |
commit | a19aa5c5fdda8b556ab238177ee27c5ef7873c94 (patch) | |
tree | 6c770c8fbbe3270bf1416c3edd8894d214e62657 /drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.h | |
parent | e54b82d739d4a2ef992976c8c0692cdf89286420 (diff) |
IB/mthca: Fix potential AB-BA deadlock with CQ locks
When destroying a QP, mthca locks both the QP's send CQ and receive
CQ. However, the following scenario is perfectly valid:
QP_a: send_cq == CQ_x, recv_cq == CQ_y
QP_b: send_cq == CQ_y, recv_cq == CQ_x
The old mthca code simply locked send_cq and then recv_cq, which in
this case could lead to an AB-BA deadlock if QP_a and QP_b were
destroyed simultaneously.
We can fix this by changing the locking code to lock the CQ with the
lower CQ number first, which will create a consistent lock ordering.
Also, the second CQ is locked with spin_lock_nested() to tell lockdep
that we know what we're doing with the lock nesting.
This bug was found by lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.h index 8de2887ba15..9a5bece3fa5 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.h +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.h @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ struct mthca_ah { * We have one global lock that protects dev->cq/qp_table. Each * struct mthca_cq/qp also has its own lock. An individual qp lock * may be taken inside of an individual cq lock. Both cqs attached to - * a qp may be locked, with the send cq locked first. No other - * nesting should be done. + * a qp may be locked, with the cq with the lower cqn locked first. + * No other nesting should be done. * * Each struct mthca_cq/qp also has an ref count, protected by the * corresponding table lock. The pointer from the cq/qp_table to the |