This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mlx4_en: don't use napi_synchronize inside mlx4_en_netpoll

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mlx4_en-don-t-use-napi_synchronize-inside-mlx4_en_netpoll.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 0610ae43cefde18c9270e7c791faa629382200f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:09:24 -0400
Subject: mlx4_en: don't use napi_synchronize inside mlx4_en_netpoll

From: Chris Mason <[email protected]>

commit c98235cb8584a72e95786e17d695a8e5fafcd766 upstream.

The mlx4 driver is triggering schedules while atomic inside
mlx4_en_netpoll:

        spin_lock_irqsave(&cq->lock, flags);
        napi_synchronize(&cq->napi);
                ^^^^^ msleep here
        mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(dev, cq, 0);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cq->lock, flags);

This was part of a patch by Alexander Guller from Mellanox in 2011,
but it still isn't upstream.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Acked-By: Amir Vadai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Cc: Masoud Sharbiani <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c     |    1 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c |    6 +-----
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h   |    1 -
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ int mlx4_en_create_cq(struct mlx4_en_pri
 
        cq->ring = ring;
        cq->is_tx = mode;
-       spin_lock_init(&cq->lock);
 
        err = mlx4_alloc_hwq_res(mdev->dev, &cq->wqres,
                                cq->buf_size, 2 * PAGE_SIZE);
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -1190,15 +1190,11 @@ static void mlx4_en_netpoll(struct net_d
 {
        struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
        struct mlx4_en_cq *cq;
-       unsigned long flags;
        int i;
 
        for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) {
                cq = &priv->rx_cq[i];
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&cq->lock, flags);
-               napi_synchronize(&cq->napi);
-               mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(dev, cq, 0);
-               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cq->lock, flags);
+               napi_schedule(&cq->napi);
        }
 }
 #endif
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -299,7 +299,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_cq {
        struct mlx4_cq          mcq;
        struct mlx4_hwq_resources wqres;
        int                     ring;
-       spinlock_t              lock;
        struct net_device      *dev;
        struct napi_struct      napi;
        int size;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/mlx4_en-don-t-use-napi_synchronize-inside-mlx4_en_netpoll.patch
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