Re: [PATCH 2/2] ehea: Fix kernel deadlock in DLPAR-mem processing

2010-06-16 Thread David Miller
From: Jan-Bernd Themann ossth...@de.ibm.com Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:35:42 +0200 Port reset operations and memory add/remove operations need to be serialized to avoid a kernel deadlock. The deadlock is caused by calling the napi_disable() function twice. Therefore we have to employ the

[PATCH 2/2] ehea: Fix kernel deadlock in DLPAR-mem processing

2010-06-15 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Port reset operations and memory add/remove operations need to be serialized to avoid a kernel deadlock. The deadlock is caused by calling the napi_disable() function twice. Therefore we have to employ the dlpar_mem_lock in the ehea_reset_port function as well Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann