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    mlx4: Replacing pool_lock with mutex · 730c41d5
    Yevgeny Petrilin authored
    
    
    Under the spinlock we call request_irq(), which allocates memory with GFP_KERNEL,
    This causes the following trace when DEBUG_SPINLOCK is enabled, it can cause
    the following trace:
    
     BUG: spinlock wrong CPU on CPU#2, ethtool/2595
     lock: ffff8801f9cbc2b0, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: ethtool/2595, .owner_cpu: 0
     Pid: 2595, comm: ethtool Not tainted 3.0.18 #2
     Call Trace:
     spin_bug+0xa2/0xf0
     do_raw_spin_unlock+0x71/0xa0
     _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x10
     mlx4_assign_eq+0x12b/0x190 [mlx4_core]
     mlx4_en_activate_cq+0x252/0x2d0 [mlx4_en]
     ? mlx4_en_activate_rx_rings+0x227/0x370 [mlx4_en]
     mlx4_en_start_port+0x189/0xb90 [mlx4_en]
     mlx4_en_set_ringparam+0x29a/0x340 [mlx4_en]
     dev_ethtool+0x816/0xb10
     ? dev_get_by_name_rcu+0xa4/0xe0
     dev_ioctl+0x2b5/0x470
     handle_mm_fault+0x1cd/0x2d0
     sock_do_ioctl+0x5d/0x70
     sock_ioctl+0x79/0x2f0
     do_vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x340
     sys_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    
    Replacing with mutex, which is enough in this case.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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