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macb: Remove inappropriate spinlocks around mii calls 

Remove spin_lock_irqsave() around mii_ethtool_gset, mii_ethtool_sset
and generic_mii_ioctl. These are unnecessary and harmful because
the mii calls may call back into the mdio functions, which may sleep.

Pointed out by David Brownell.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Haavard Skinnemoen 2007-02-16 15:59:06 +01:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
parent daeafdc360
commit 140e807dd7
1 changed files with 3 additions and 21 deletions
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drivers/net/macb.c
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@ -881,27 +881,15 @@ static struct net_device_stats *macb_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
static int macb_get_settings(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_cmd *cmd)
{
struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
int ret;
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&bp->lock, flags);
ret = mii_ethtool_gset(&bp->mii, cmd);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
return ret;
return mii_ethtool_gset(&bp->mii, cmd);
}
static int macb_set_settings(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_cmd *cmd)
{
struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
int ret;
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&bp->lock, flags);
ret = mii_ethtool_sset(&bp->mii, cmd);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
return ret;
return mii_ethtool_sset(&bp->mii, cmd);
}
static void macb_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_drvinfo *info)
@ -930,17 +918,11 @@ static struct ethtool_ops macb_ethtool_ops = {
static int macb_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
{
struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
int ret;
unsigned long flags;
if (!netif_running(dev))
return -EINVAL;
spin_lock_irqsave(&bp->lock, flags);
ret = generic_mii_ioctl(&bp->mii, if_mii(rq), cmd, NULL);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
return ret;
return generic_mii_ioctl(&bp->mii, if_mii(rq), cmd, NULL);
}
static ssize_t macb_mii_show(const struct device *_dev, char *buf,