Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.17 | | Date | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:54:13 +0200 |
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On Sunday 18 June 2006 03:59, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Not a lot of changes since the last -rc, the bulk is actually some > last-minute MIPS updates and s390 futex changes, the rest tend to be > various very small fixes that trickled in over the last week.
D'oh, please queue the following patch for -stable, Greg. ;)
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Place the Init-vs-IRQ workaround before any card register access, because we might not have the wireless core mapped at all times in init. So this will result in a Machine Check caused by a bus error.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c =================================================================== --- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c 2006-06-17 15:06:38.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c 2006-06-17 15:17:49.000000000 +0200 @@ -1885,6 +1885,15 @@ spin_lock(&bcm->irq_lock); + /* Only accept IRQs, if we are initialized properly. + * This avoids an RX race while initializing. + * We should probably not enable IRQs before we are initialized + * completely, but some careful work is needed to fix this. I think it + * is best to stay with this cheap workaround for now... . + */ + if (unlikely(bcm43xx_status(bcm) != BCM43xx_STAT_INITIALIZED)) + goto out; + reason = bcm43xx_read32(bcm, BCM43xx_MMIO_GEN_IRQ_REASON); if (reason == 0xffffffff) { /* irq not for us (shared irq) */ @@ -1906,19 +1915,11 @@ bcm43xx_interrupt_ack(bcm, reason); - /* Only accept IRQs, if we are initialized properly. - * This avoids an RX race while initializing. - * We should probably not enable IRQs before we are initialized - * completely, but some careful work is needed to fix this. I think it - * is best to stay with this cheap workaround for now... . - */ - if (likely(bcm43xx_status(bcm) == BCM43xx_STAT_INITIALIZED)) { - /* disable all IRQs. They are enabled again in the bottom half. */ - bcm->irq_savedstate = bcm43xx_interrupt_disable(bcm, BCM43xx_IRQ_ALL); - /* save the reason code and call our bottom half. */ - bcm->irq_reason = reason; - tasklet_schedule(&bcm->isr_tasklet); - } + /* disable all IRQs. They are enabled again in the bottom half. */ + bcm->irq_savedstate = bcm43xx_interrupt_disable(bcm, BCM43xx_IRQ_ALL); + /* save the reason code and call our bottom half. */ + bcm->irq_reason = reason; + tasklet_schedule(&bcm->isr_tasklet); out: mmiowb(); -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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