[RFC PATCH 07/12] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG

From: Jesse Brandeburg
Date: Mon Sep 29 2008 - 23:22:24 EST


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch adds a mutex to the e1000e driver that would help
catch any collisions of two e1000e threads accessing hardware
at the same time.

description and patch updated by Jesse

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
index a076079..57c6d2f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
@@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ static s32 e1000_get_variants_ich8lan(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
return 0;
}

+static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvm_mutex);
+static pid_t nvm_owner = -1;
+
/**
* e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan - Acquire software control flag
* @hw: pointer to the HW structure
@@ -379,6 +382,15 @@ static s32 e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan(struct e1000_hw *hw)
u32 extcnf_ctrl;
u32 timeout = PHY_CFG_TIMEOUT;

+ WARN_ON(preempt_count());
+
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&nvm_mutex)) {
+ WARN(1, KERN_ERR "e1000e mutex contention. Owned by pid %d\n",
+ nvm_owner);
+ mutex_lock(&nvm_mutex);
+ }
+ nvm_owner = current->pid;
+
while (timeout) {
extcnf_ctrl = er32(EXTCNF_CTRL);
extcnf_ctrl |= E1000_EXTCNF_CTRL_SWFLAG;
@@ -393,6 +405,8 @@ static s32 e1000_acquire_swflag_ich8lan(struct e1000_hw *hw)

if (!timeout) {
hw_dbg(hw, "FW or HW has locked the resource for too long.\n");
+ nvm_owner = -1;
+ mutex_unlock(&nvm_mutex);
return -E1000_ERR_CONFIG;
}

@@ -414,6 +428,9 @@ static void e1000_release_swflag_ich8lan(struct e1000_hw *hw)
extcnf_ctrl = er32(EXTCNF_CTRL);
extcnf_ctrl &= ~E1000_EXTCNF_CTRL_SWFLAG;
ew32(EXTCNF_CTRL, extcnf_ctrl);
+
+ nvm_owner = -1;
+ mutex_unlock(&nvm_mutex);
}

/**

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