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authorAlexandre Bounine <[email protected]>2014-03-03 15:38:36 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2014-03-04 07:55:49 -0800
commit04379dffdd4da820d51a1566ad2e86f3b1ad97ed (patch)
tree8a010fae92af371d454169c070a8c05ae714f2b0 /tools/perf/scripts
parentbd2c00353286d63542a8a0896a8c747f7c880edd (diff)
rapidio/tsi721: fix tasklet termination in dma channel release
This patch is a modification of the patch originally proposed by Xiaotian Feng <[email protected]>: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/5/413 This new version disables DMA channel interrupts and ensures that the tasklet wil not be scheduled again before calling tasklet_kill(). Unfortunately the updated patch was not released at that time due to planned rework of Tsi721 mport driver to use threaded interrupts (which has yet to happen). Recently the issue was reported again: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/19/762. Description from the original Xiaotian's patch: "Some drivers use tasklet_disable in device remove/release process, tasklet_disable will inc tasklet->count and return. If the tasklet is not handled yet under some softirq pressure, the tasklet will be placed on the tasklet_vec, never have a chance to be excuted. This might lead to a heavy loaded ksoftirqd, wakeup with pending_softirq, but tasklet is disabled. tasklet_kill should be used in this case." This patch is applicable to kernel versions starting from v3.5. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Porter <[email protected]> Cc: Xiaotian Feng <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> [3.5+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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