On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:28:07AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > This is bogus.  These two locks belong to two different queues and 
> > they never intersect.
> 
> yeah - qeth does its own skb-queue management here, and it's done in an 
> irq-safe manner.
> 
> Heiko, in qeth_main.c, could you do something like:
> 
> + static struct lockdep_type_key qdio_out_skb_queue_key;
> 
> ...
>               skb_queue_head_init(&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].
>                                    skb_list);
> +             lockdep_reinit_key(&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].skb_list,
>                                  &qdio_out_skb_queue_key)

How about the patch below? The warning goes away and I assume "tmp_list" needs
lockdep_reinit_key too, since it should have the same locking rules as the
rest of qeth's skb-queue management.

From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Avoid false positive illegal lock usage message in qeth driver.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c      2006-06-15 08:46:26.000000000 +0200
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c      2006-06-15 08:29:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ static debug_info_t *qeth_dbf_qerr = NUL
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(char[256], qeth_dbf_txt_buf);
 
+static struct lockdep_type_key qdio_out_skb_queue_key;
+
 /**
  * some more definitions and declarations
  */
@@ -3230,6 +3232,9 @@ qeth_alloc_qdio_buffers(struct qeth_card
                                &card->qdio.out_qs[i]->qdio_bufs[j];
                        skb_queue_head_init(&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].
                                            skb_list);
+                       lockdep_reinit_key(
+                               &card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].skb_list.lock,
+                               &qdio_out_skb_queue_key);
                        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&card->qdio.out_qs[i]->bufs[j].ctx_list);
                }
        }
@@ -5273,6 +5278,7 @@ qeth_free_vlan_buffer(struct qeth_card *
        struct sk_buff_head tmp_list;
 
        skb_queue_head_init(&tmp_list);
+       lockdep_reinit_key(&tmp_list.lock, &qdio_out_skb_queue_key);
        for(i = 0; i < QETH_MAX_BUFFER_ELEMENTS(card); ++i){
                while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&buf->skb_list))){
                        if (vlan_tx_tag_present(skb) &&
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to