Re: [SOLVED] kernel BUG at tg3.c:1557

From: Roland Kuhn (rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 14:43:55 EST


On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Roland Kuhn wrote:

> > static void tg3_write_mailbox_reg32(struct tg3 *tp, u32 off, u32 val)
> > {
> > unsigned long flags;
> >
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&tp->indirect_lock, flags);
> > writel(val, tp->regs + off);
> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tp->indirect_lock, flags);
> > }
> >
> > and that plain works. That means that only the mailbox writes have
> > additional locking around the otherwise unchanged writel() call. Does the
> > spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore take care of the PCI ordering?
> >
> While loading properly, this still crashed the machine. After giving it
> some thought I tried to add a dummy pci_read_config_dword() just before
> the writel(), and that works! I use this function both for tr32 and
> tr32_mailbox. I hammered it over one hour with a script that crashed it
> always in five seconds, and not so much as a hiccup :-)
>
Sorry, I meant tw32 and tw32_mailbox.

Ciao,
                                        Roland

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