[PATCH net v3] amd-xgbe: fix sleep while atomic on suspend/resume

From: Raju Rangoju

Date: Sun Mar 01 2026 - 23:23:19 EST


The xgbe_powerdown() and xgbe_powerup() functions use spinlocks
(spin_lock_irqsave) while calling functions that may sleep:
- napi_disable() can sleep waiting for NAPI polling to complete
- flush_workqueue() can sleep waiting for pending work items

This causes a "BUG: scheduling while atomic" error during suspend/resume
cycles on systems using the AMD XGBE Ethernet controller.

The spinlock protection in these functions is unnecessary as these
functions are called from suspend/resume paths which are already serialized
by the PM core

Fix this by removing the spinlock. Since only code that takes this lock
is xgbe_powerdown() and xgbe_powerup(), remove it completely.

Fixes: c5aa9e3b8156 ("amd-xgbe: Initial AMD 10GbE platform driver")
Signed-off-by: Raju Rangoju <Raju.Rangoju@xxxxxxx>
---
Changes since V2:
- remove the spinlock completely since only xgbe_powerdown() and
xgbe_powerup() take it.

drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c | 10 ----------
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-main.c | 1 -
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe.h | 3 ---
3 files changed, 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c
index 62bb4b8a68e1..8b79d88480db 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c
@@ -1120,7 +1120,6 @@ int xgbe_powerdown(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int caller)
{
struct xgbe_prv_data *pdata = netdev_priv(netdev);
struct xgbe_hw_if *hw_if = &pdata->hw_if;
- unsigned long flags;

DBGPR("-->xgbe_powerdown\n");

@@ -1131,8 +1130,6 @@ int xgbe_powerdown(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int caller)
return -EINVAL;
}

- spin_lock_irqsave(&pdata->lock, flags);
-
if (caller == XGMAC_DRIVER_CONTEXT)
netif_device_detach(netdev);

@@ -1148,8 +1145,6 @@ int xgbe_powerdown(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int caller)

pdata->power_down = 1;

- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pdata->lock, flags);
-
DBGPR("<--xgbe_powerdown\n");

return 0;
@@ -1159,7 +1154,6 @@ int xgbe_powerup(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int caller)
{
struct xgbe_prv_data *pdata = netdev_priv(netdev);
struct xgbe_hw_if *hw_if = &pdata->hw_if;
- unsigned long flags;

DBGPR("-->xgbe_powerup\n");

@@ -1170,8 +1164,6 @@ int xgbe_powerup(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int caller)
return -EINVAL;
}

- spin_lock_irqsave(&pdata->lock, flags);
-
pdata->power_down = 0;

xgbe_napi_enable(pdata, 0);
@@ -1186,8 +1178,6 @@ int xgbe_powerup(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int caller)

xgbe_start_timers(pdata);

- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pdata->lock, flags);
-
DBGPR("<--xgbe_powerup\n");

return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-main.c
index d1f0419edb23..7d45ea22a02e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-main.c
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ struct xgbe_prv_data *xgbe_alloc_pdata(struct device *dev)
pdata->netdev = netdev;
pdata->dev = dev;

- spin_lock_init(&pdata->lock);
spin_lock_init(&pdata->xpcs_lock);
mutex_init(&pdata->rss_mutex);
spin_lock_init(&pdata->tstamp_lock);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe.h
index 1269b8ce9249..e1d7d7150e16 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe.h
@@ -1004,9 +1004,6 @@ struct xgbe_prv_data {
unsigned int pp3;
unsigned int pp4;

- /* Overall device lock */
- spinlock_t lock;
-
/* XPCS indirect addressing lock */
spinlock_t xpcs_lock;
unsigned int xpcs_window_def_reg;
--
2.34.1