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| author | dave graham <david.graham@intel.com> | 2009-02-14 23:46:10 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-02-14 23:46:10 -0800 |
| commit | 0a834a36ac92375cd82d9e4fe4f571e257997d6a (patch) | |
| tree | 5c9ffb2dafe2aa7f26b68d16d2ec3eb93311a38a /drivers/net/e1000e | |
| parent | 5e30589521518bff36fd2638b3c3d69679c50436 (diff) | |
e1000e: Remove mutex_trylock and associated WARN on failure.
Single-thread access must be ensured for ICH8 NVM and PHY operations.
This synchronization is provided by the nvm_mutex. To assist in
understanding the contexts from which this code could be reached,
a WARN was output if the mutex was not going to be immediately
acquirable (if !mutex_trylock()). The code has now been optimized,
and we have verified that the few remaining mutex contentions are
reasonable and non-blocking, and it is time to remove the
mutex_trylock() and WARN messages.
Signed-off-by: dave graham <david.graham@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/e1000e')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c index e415e81ecd3..6d1aab6316b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c @@ -390,8 +390,6 @@ static s32 e1000_get_variants_ich8lan(struct e1000_adapter *adapter) } static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvm_mutex); -static pid_t nvm_owner_pid = -1; -static char nvm_owner_name[TASK_COMM_LEN] = ""; /** * e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan - Acquire software control flag @@ -408,16 +406,7 @@ static s32 e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan(struct e1000_hw *hw) might_sleep(); - if (!mutex_trylock(&nvm_mutex)) { - WARN(1, KERN_ERR "e1000e mutex contention. Owned by process " - "%s (pid %d), required by process %s (pid %d)\n", - nvm_owner_name, nvm_owner_pid, - current->comm, current->pid); - - mutex_lock(&nvm_mutex); - } - nvm_owner_pid = current->pid; - strncpy(nvm_owner_name, current->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN); + mutex_lock(&nvm_mutex); while (timeout) { extcnf_ctrl = er32(EXTCNF_CTRL); @@ -435,8 +424,6 @@ static s32 e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan(struct e1000_hw *hw) hw_dbg(hw, "FW or HW has locked the resource for too long.\n"); extcnf_ctrl &= ~E1000_EXTCNF_CTRL_SWFLAG; ew32(EXTCNF_CTRL, extcnf_ctrl); - nvm_owner_pid = -1; - strcpy(nvm_owner_name, ""); mutex_unlock(&nvm_mutex); return -E1000_ERR_CONFIG; } @@ -460,8 +447,6 @@ static void e1000_release_swflag_ich8lan(struct e1000_hw *hw) extcnf_ctrl &= ~E1000_EXTCNF_CTRL_SWFLAG; ew32(EXTCNF_CTRL, extcnf_ctrl); - nvm_owner_pid = -1; - strcpy(nvm_owner_name, ""); mutex_unlock(&nvm_mutex); } |