Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] pci: Use a bus-global mutex to protect VPD operations

2015-05-20 Thread Rustad, Mark D
On May 19, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Alexander Duyck alexander.h.du...@redhat.com wrote: My suspicion is that we have a number of bugs floating around out there like the Broadcom issue. Specifically, one of the ones I found was that the r8169 seems to have a similar issue as called out in the

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] pci: Use a bus-global mutex to protect VPD operations

2015-05-20 Thread Alexander Duyck
On 05/20/2015 09:00 AM, Rustad, Mark D wrote: On May 19, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Alexander Duyck alexander.h.du...@redhat.com wrote: My suspicion is that we have a number of bugs floating around out there like the Broadcom issue. Specifically, one of the ones I found was that the r8169 seems to

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] pci: Use a bus-global mutex to protect VPD operations

2015-05-19 Thread Alexander Duyck
On 05/18/2015 05:00 PM, Mark D Rustad wrote: Some devices have a problem with concurrent VPD access to different functions of the same physical device, so move the protecting mutex from the pci_vpd structure to the pci_bus structure. There are a number of reports on support sites for a variety