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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2006-06-09 12:20:56 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-06-17 21:30:14 -0700
commit932ff279a43ab7257942cddff2595acd541cc49b (patch)
treee60130673a20d71becdac858c2589d8dfbf3ae1f /include
parentbf0857ea32addb6bc8b46383604b218b8ec09f19 (diff)
[NET]: Add netif_tx_lock
Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their transmission routines. They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner. This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use. With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner isn't set. This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take xmit_lock recursively. While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire. So delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible. So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner. The following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner. I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be used directly. I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock. This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small bug fix in winbond. It currently uses netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission. This is unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue. So it is safer to use netif_tx_disable. The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h38
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index b5760c67af9..067b9ccafd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ struct net_device
* One part is mostly used on xmit path (device)
*/
/* hard_start_xmit synchronizer */
- spinlock_t xmit_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+ spinlock_t _xmit_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
/* cpu id of processor entered to hard_start_xmit or -1,
if nobody entered there.
*/
@@ -893,11 +893,43 @@ static inline void __netif_rx_complete(struct net_device *dev)
clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED, &dev->state);
}
+static inline void netif_tx_lock(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ spin_lock(&dev->_xmit_lock);
+ dev->xmit_lock_owner = smp_processor_id();
+}
+
+static inline void netif_tx_lock_bh(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ spin_lock_bh(&dev->_xmit_lock);
+ dev->xmit_lock_owner = smp_processor_id();
+}
+
+static inline int netif_tx_trylock(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ int err = spin_trylock(&dev->_xmit_lock);
+ if (!err)
+ dev->xmit_lock_owner = smp_processor_id();
+ return err;
+}
+
+static inline void netif_tx_unlock(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ dev->xmit_lock_owner = -1;
+ spin_unlock(&dev->_xmit_lock);
+}
+
+static inline void netif_tx_unlock_bh(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ dev->xmit_lock_owner = -1;
+ spin_unlock_bh(&dev->_xmit_lock);
+}
+
static inline void netif_tx_disable(struct net_device *dev)
{
- spin_lock_bh(&dev->xmit_lock);
+ netif_tx_lock_bh(dev);
netif_stop_queue(dev);
- spin_unlock_bh(&dev->xmit_lock);
+ netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev);
}
/* These functions live elsewhere (drivers/net/net_init.c, but related) */