[PATCH 2/2] ehea: Fix kernel deadlock in DLPAR-mem processing
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Thu Jun 17 11:05:47 EST 2010
From: "Jan-Bernd Themann" <ossthema at de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:35:42 +0200
> Port reset operations and memory add/remove operations need to
> be serialized to avoid a kernel deadlock. The deadlock is caused
> by calling the napi_disable() function twice.
> Therefore we have to employ the dlpar_mem_lock in the ehea_reset_port
> function as well
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann at de.ibm.com>
Applied.
More information about the Linuxppc-dev
mailing list