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authorDaniel Pieczko <dpieczko@solarflare.com>2012-10-17 14:21:23 +0200
committerBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2012-12-01 03:37:35 +0100
commitc2f3b8e3a44b6fe9e36704e30157ebe1a88c08b1 (patch)
treea33870250f24b7b832a52bb039aee7f4b20d842b /drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h
parentsfc: Work-around flush timeout when flushes have completed (diff)
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sfc: lock TX queues when calling netif_device_detach()
The assertion of netif_device_present() at the top of efx_hard_start_xmit() may fail if we don't do this. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h
index f11170bc48bf..50247dfe8f57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h
@@ -163,4 +163,17 @@ extern void efx_link_status_changed(struct efx_nic *efx);
extern void efx_link_set_advertising(struct efx_nic *efx, u32);
extern void efx_link_set_wanted_fc(struct efx_nic *efx, u8);
+static inline void efx_device_detach_sync(struct efx_nic *efx)
+{
+ struct net_device *dev = efx->net_dev;
+
+ /* Lock/freeze all TX queues so that we can be sure the
+ * TX scheduler is stopped when we're done and before
+ * netif_device_present() becomes false.
+ */
+ netif_tx_lock(dev);
+ netif_device_detach(dev);
+ netif_tx_unlock(dev);
+}
+
#endif /* EFX_EFX_H */