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Commit bd7c4b60 authored by Neil Horman's avatar Neil Horman Committed by David S. Miller
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netpoll: convert mutex into a semaphore

Bart Van Assche recently reported a warning to me:

<IRQ>  [<ffffffff8103d79f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffff8103d7fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff814761dd>] mutex_trylock+0x16d/0x180
[<ffffffff813968c9>] netpoll_poll_dev+0x49/0xc30
[<ffffffff8136a2d2>] ? __alloc_skb+0x82/0x2a0
[<ffffffff81397715>] netpoll_send_skb_on_dev+0x265/0x410
[<ffffffff81397c5a>] netpoll_send_udp+0x28a/0x3a0
[<ffffffffa0541843>] ? write_msg+0x53/0x110 [netconsole]
[<ffffffffa05418bf>] write_msg+0xcf/0x110 [netconsole]
[<ffffffff8103eba1>] call_console_drivers.constprop.17+0xa1/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8103fb76>] console_unlock+0x2d6/0x450
[<ffffffff8104011e>] vprintk_emit+0x1ee/0x510
[<ffffffff8146f9f6>] printk+0x4d/0x4f
[<ffffffffa0004f1d>] scsi_print_command+0x7d/0xe0 [scsi_mod]

This resulted from my commit ca99ca14

 which introduced a mutex_trylock
operation in a path that could execute in interrupt context.  When mutex
debugging is enabled, the above warns the user when we are in fact
exectuting in interrupt context
interrupt context.

After some discussion, It seems that a semaphore is the proper mechanism to use
here.  While mutexes are defined to be unusable in interrupt context, no such
condition exists for semaphores (save for the fact that the non blocking api
calls, like up and down_trylock must be used when in irq context).

Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
CC: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ae6164ad
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