From: Sriramakrishnan A G <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:12:31 +0530

> The DMA cleanup function was holding the spinlock across
> a busy loop where it waits for HW to indicate teardown is complete.
> This generates a backtrace, when DEBUG_SPINLOCK is enabled. Make the
> locking more granular.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sriramakrishnan A G <[email protected]>

You can't really sleep in this function at all.

For example, it gets invoked from the ->ndo_tx_timeout() method in
davinci_emac.c, which runs from a timer.

So even if you hack the spinlock usage, there are still major issues
here.

We could conditionalize the timeout handling, but I don't think so
much complexity is worth it here.

Just do a udelay()/mdelay() or similar, instead of the timed sleeps.

Thanks.
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