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    cxgb3: Fix lockdep problems with sge.reg_lock · b1186dee
    Roland Dreier authored
    
    
    Using iWARP with a Chelsio T3 NIC generates the following lockdep warning:
    
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        [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
        2.6.25-rc6 #50
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        inconsistent {softirq-on-W} -> {in-softirq-W} usage.
        swapper/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE0:SE0] takes:
         (&adap->sge.reg_lock){-+..}, at: [<ffffffff880e5ee2>] cxgb_offload_ctl+0x3af/0x507 [cxgb3]
    
    The problem is that reg_lock is used with plain spin_lock() in
    drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c but is used with spin_lock_irqsave() in
    drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c.  This is technically a false
    positive, since the uses in sge.c are only in the initialization and
    cleanup paths and cannot overlap with any use in interrupt context.
    
    The best fix is probably just to use spin_lock_irq() with reg_lock in
    sge.c.  Even though it's not strictly required for correctness, it
    avoids triggering lockdep and the extra overhead of disabling
    interrupts is not important at all in the initialization and cleanup
    slow paths.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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