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Author SHA1 Message Date
Arjan van de Ven
1d39ed565c remove NETIF_F_TSO ifdefery
Remove the NETIF_F_TSO #ifdef-ery in drivers/net; this was
for old-old-2.4 compat (even current 2.4 has NETIF_F_TSO)
but it's time to get rid of it by now.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-05 16:58:45 -05:00
Michael Chan
b659f44e4e [BNX2]: PHY workaround for 5709 A0.
5709 A0 copper devices will not link up with some link partners
without this workaround.

Update driver to 1.5.5.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-02 00:46:35 -08:00
Michael Chan
24cb230b58 [BNX2]: Fix 2nd port's MAC address.
On the 5709, we need to add the proper offset to calculate the shared
memory base address of the 2nd port correctly.  Otherwise, the 2nd
port's MAC address and other information will be the same as the 1st
port.

Update version to 1.5.4.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-25 15:49:56 -08:00
Michael Chan
d6aa4aceba [BNX2]: Update version and reldate.
Update version to 1.5.3.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-09 00:30:05 -08:00
Michael Chan
e6be763f63 [BNX2]: Fix bug in bnx2_nvram_write().
The bug was a bogus pointer being passed to kfree().  The pointer was
incremented in the write loop and then passed to kfree().

The fix is to use align_buf to save the original address.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-09 00:30:04 -08:00
Michael Chan
253c8b7554 [BNX2]: Fix 5709 Serdes detection.
5709 has a new register to detect copper/fiber PHYs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-09 00:30:03 -08:00
Michael Chan
261dd5ca05 [BNX2]: Don't apply CRC PHY workaround to 5709.
The workaround is only needed on 5706/5708 and cannot be applied on
5709.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-09 00:30:02 -08:00
Michael Chan
6634292be4 [BNX2]: Fix minor loopback problem.
Use the configured MAC address instead of the permanent MAC address
for loopback frames.

Update version to 1.5.2.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-17 21:59:17 -08:00
Michael Chan
6a13add1e1 [BNX2]: Fix bug in bnx2_nvram_write().
Length was not calculated correctly if the NVRAM offset is on a non-
aligned offset.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-17 21:59:16 -08:00
Michael Chan
faac9c4b75 [BNX2]: Fix panic in bnx2_tx_int().
There was an off-by-one bug in bnx2_tx_avail().  If the tx ring is
completely full, the producer and consumer indices may be apart by
256 even though the ring size is only 255.  One entry in the ring is
unused and must be properly accounted for when calculating the number
of available entries.  The bug caused the tx ring entries to be
reused by mistake, overwriting active entries, and ultimately causing
it to crash.

This bug rarely occurs because the tx ring is rarely completely full.
We always stop when there is less than MAX_SKB_FRAGS entries available
in the ring.

Thanks to Corey Kovacs <cjk@techma.com> and Andy Gospodarek
<agospoda@redhat.com> for reporting the problem and helping to collect
debug information.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-17 21:59:15 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
6c1bbcc883 [BNX2]: Add an error check.
This patch adds a missing error check spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08 17:19:22 -08:00
David Howells
4c1ac1b491 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 14:37:56 +00:00
Michael Chan
f123bc5f80 [BNX2]: Update version and rel date.
Update version to 1.5.1.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:34 -08:00
Michael Chan
bac0dff6cd [BNX2]: Add 5709 PCI ID.
Add PCI ID and detection for 5709 copper and SerDes chips.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:33 -08:00
Michael Chan
d43584c8bf [BNX2]: Download 5709 firmware.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:32 -08:00
Michael Chan
234754d5c1 [BNX2]: Add 5709 reset and runtime code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:27 -08:00
Michael Chan
59b47d8ad3 [BNX2]: Add 5709 init code.
Add basic support to initialize the 5709 chip.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:26 -08:00
Michael Chan
af3ee519c5 [BNX2]: Re-organize firmware structures.
Re-organize the firmware handling code and declarations a bit to make
the code more compact.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:22 -08:00
Michael Chan
a16dda0e67 [BNX2]: Remove udelay() in copper PHY code.
Change a long udelay() in bnx2_setup_copper_phy() to msleep().

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:21 -08:00
Michael Chan
f8dd064ee1 [BNX2]: Add 5708S parallel detection.
Add code to parallel detect 1Gbps and 2.5Gbps link speeds.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:20 -08:00
Michael Chan
48b01e2d7c [BNX2]: Add bnx2_5706_serdes_timer().
Separate the 5706S SerDes handling code in bnx2_timer() and put it
in a new function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:19 -08:00
Michael Chan
80be44348e [BNX2]: Improve SerDes handling.
1. Add support for 2.5Gbps forced speed setting.
2. Remove a long udelay() loop and change to msleep().
3. Other misc. SerDes fixes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:18 -08:00
Michael Chan
7510873d86 [BNX2]: Fix Xen problem.
This fixes the problem of not receiving packets in the Xen bridging
environment.  The Xen script sets the device's MAC address to
FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and puts the device in promiscuous mode.  The
firmware had problem receiving all packets in this configuration.

New firmware and setting the PROM_VLAN bit when in promiscuous mode
will fix this problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:24:17 -08:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
David Howells
7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Michael Chan
f9317a40c4 [BNX2]: Disable MSI on 5706 if AMD 8132 bridge is present.
MSI is defined to be 32-bit write.  The 5706 does 64-bit MSI writes
with byte enables disabled on the unused 32-bit word.  This is legal
but causes problems on the AMD 8132 which will eventually stop
responding after a while.

Without this patch, the MSI test done by the driver during open will
pass, but MSI will eventually stop working after a few MSIs are
written by the device.

AMD believes this incompatibility is unique to the 5706, and
prefers to locally disable MSI rather than globally disabling it
using pci_msi_quirk.

Update version to 1.4.45.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:06:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a319a2773a Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (217 commits)
  net/ieee80211: fix more crypto-related build breakage
  [PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics)
  [NET] GT96100: Delete bitrotting ethernet driver
  [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: restrict to 32-bit PPC_MULTIPLATFORM
  [PATCH] Cirrus Logic ep93xx ethernet driver
  r8169: the MMIO region of the 8167 stands behin BAR#1
  e1000, ixgb: Remove pointless wrappers
  [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
  [PATCH] s2io: Switch to pci_get_device
  [PATCH] gt96100: move to pci_get_device API
  [PATCH] ehea: bugfix for register access functions
  [PATCH] e1000 disable device on PCI error
  drivers/net/phy/fixed: #if 0 some incomplete code
  drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
  [PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops
  [PATCH] sky2: big endian
  [PATCH] sky2: fiber support
  [PATCH] sky2: tx pause bug fix
  drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
  [PATCH] ehea: IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver
  ...

Manually resolved conflicts in drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c and
drivers/net/sky2.c related to CHECKSUM_HW/CHECKSUM_PARTIAL changes by
commit 84fa7933a3 that just happened to be
next to unrelated changes in this update.
2006-09-24 10:15:13 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
84fa7933a3 [NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose
checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for
incoming packets, device supplied full checksum).

Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:53 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
7282d491ec drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13 14:30:00 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
6aa20a2235 drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13 13:24:59 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
299176206b drivers/net: Remove deprecated use of pci_module_init()
From: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-19 17:48:59 -04:00
Michael Chan
932f3772cf [BNX2]: Convert to netdev_alloc_skb()
Convert dev_alloc_skb() to netdev_alloc_skb() and increase default
rx ring size to 255. The old ring size of 100 was too small.

Update version to 1.4.44.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 16:29:52 -07:00
Michael Chan
2f8af120a1 [BNX2]: Fix tx race condition.
Fix a subtle race condition between bnx2_start_xmit() and bnx2_tx_int()
similar to the one in tg3 discovered by Herbert Xu:

CPU0					CPU1
bnx2_start_xmit()
	if (tx_ring_full) {
		tx_lock
					bnx2_tx()
						if (!netif_queue_stopped)
		netif_stop_queue()
		if (!tx_ring_full)
						update_tx_ring
			netif_wake_queue()
		tx_unlock
	}

Even though tx_ring is updated before the if statement in bnx2_tx_int() in
program order, it can be re-ordered by the CPU as shown above.  This
scenario can cause the tx queue to be stopped forever if bnx2_tx_int() has
just freed up the entire tx_ring.  The possibility of this happening
should be very rare though.

The following changes are made, very much identical to the tg3 fix:

1. Add memory barrier to fix the above race condition.

2. Eliminate the private tx_lock altogether and rely solely on
netif_tx_lock.  This eliminates one spinlock in bnx2_start_xmit()
when the ring is full.

3. Because of 2, use netif_tx_lock in bnx2_tx_int() before calling
netif_wake_queue().

4. Add memory barrier to bnx2_tx_avail().

5. Add bp->tx_wake_thresh which is set to half the tx ring size.

6. Check for the full wake queue condition before getting
netif_tx_lock in tg3_tx().  This reduces the number of unnecessary
spinlocks when the tx ring is full in a steady-state condition.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 16:29:51 -07:00
Herbert Xu
89114afd43 [NET] gso: Add skb_is_gso
This patch adds the wrapper function skb_is_gso which can be used instead
of directly testing skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size.  This makes things a little
nicer and allows us to change the primary key for indicating whether an skb
is GSO (if we ever want to do that).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-08 13:34:32 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
9b91cf9daa [netdrvr] use dev_xxx() printk helpers, rather than dev_printk(KERN_xxx, ...
Suggested by Jiri Slaby.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-05 13:42:57 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
2e8a538d86 [netdrvr] Use dev_printk() when ethernet interface isn't available
For messages prior to register_netdev(), prefer dev_printk() because
that prints out both our driver name and our [PCI | whatever] bus id.

Updates: 8139{cp,too}, b44, bnx2, cassini, {eepro,epic}100, fealnx,
	 hamachi, ne2k-pci, ns83820, pci-skeleton, r8169.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-05 13:42:07 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
1fb9df5d30 [PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:51 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Michael Chan
6c4f095eae [BNX2]: Turn off link during shutdown
Minor change in shutdown logic to effect a link down.

Update version to 1.4.43.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:58:24 -07:00
Michael Chan
745720e583 [BNX2]: Use dev_kfree_skb() instead of the _irq version
Change all dev_kfree_skb_irq() and dev_kfree_skb_any() to
dev_kfree_skb().  These calls are never used in irq context.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:58:21 -07:00
Michael Chan
b11d621352 [BNX2]: Add NETIF_F_TSO_ECN
Add NETIF_F_TSO_ECN feature for all bnx2 hardware.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:58:10 -07:00
Herbert Xu
7967168cef [NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buff
Having separate fields in sk_buff for TSO/UFO (tso_size/ufo_size) is not
going to scale if we add any more segmentation methods (e.g., DCCP).  So
let's merge them.

They were used to tell the protocol of a packet.  This function has been
subsumed by the new gso_type field.  This is essentially a set of netdev
feature bits (shifted by 16 bits) that are required to process a specific
skb.  As such it's easy to tell whether a given device can process a GSO
skb: you just have to and the gso_type field and the netdev's features
field.

I've made gso_type a conjunction.  The idea is that you have a base type
(e.g., SKB_GSO_TCPV4) that can be modified further to support new features.
For example, if we add a hardware TSO type that supports ECN, they would
declare NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN.  All TSO packets with CWR set would
have a gso_type of SKB_GSO_TCPV4 | SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN while all other TSO
packets would be SKB_GSO_TCPV4.  This means that only the CWR packets need
to be emulated in software.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:29 -07:00
Michael Chan
9e1881dec9 [BNX2]: Update version and reldate
Update driver version to 1.4.42.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:51 -07:00
Michael Chan
c86a31f452 [BNX2]: Use CPU native page size
Use CPU native page size to determine various ring sizes. This allows
order-0 memory allocations on all systems.

Added check to limit the page size to 16K since that's the maximum rx
ring size that will be used. This will prevent using unnecessarily
large page sizes on some architectures with large page sizes.
[Suggested by David Miller]

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:49 -07:00
Michael Chan
fba9fe911b [BNX2]: Add firmware decompression
Add functions to decompress firmware before loading to the internal
CPUs. Compressing the firmware reduces the driver size significantly.

Added file name length sanity check in the gzip header to prevent
going past the end of buffer [suggested by DaveM].

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:44 -07:00
Michael Chan
160882722c [BNX2]: Allow WoL settings on new 5708 chips
Allow WOL settings on 5708 B2 and newer chips that have the problem
fixed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:42 -07:00
Michael Chan
cea94db9b4 [BNX2]: Add an rx drop counter
Add a counter for packets dropped by firmware.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:40 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
d1e100ba69 [BNX2]: Endian fixes.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:28 -07:00
Herbert Xu
932ff279a4 [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock
Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
transmission routines.  They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.

With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
isn't set.  This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
xmit_lock recursively.

While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire.  So
delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.

So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner.  The
following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.

I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
used directly.  I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.

This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
bug fix in winbond.  It currently uses
netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission.  This is
unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue.  So it is safer to
use netif_tx_disable.

The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:14 -07:00
Michael Chan
ae181bc44c [BNX2]: Use kmalloc instead of array
Use kmalloc() instead of a local array in bnx2_nvram_write().

Update version to 1.4.40.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-22 16:39:20 -07:00