[openib-general] ipoib lockdep warning
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Jul 11 15:54:26 PDT 2006
No time to really look at this in detail, but I think the issue is a
slightly bogus conversion to netif_tx_lock(). Can you try this patch
and see if things are better?
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
index ab40488..ddd1946 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
@@ -820,9 +820,8 @@ void ipoib_mcast_restart_task(void *dev_
ipoib_mcast_stop_thread(dev, 0);
- local_irq_save(flags);
netif_tx_lock(dev);
- spin_lock(&priv->lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
/*
* Unfortunately, the networking core only gives us a list of all of
@@ -893,9 +892,8 @@ void ipoib_mcast_restart_task(void *dev_
}
}
- spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
netif_tx_unlock(dev);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
/* We have to cancel outside of the spinlock */
list_for_each_entry_safe(mcast, tmcast, &remove_list, list) {
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