Re: Linux v2.6.17
From: Michael Buesch
Date: Sun Jun 18 2006 - 06:56:39 EST
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. ;)
--
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@xxxxxxxxx>
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.
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