Re: [PATCH 2/2] ehea: Fix kernel deadlock in DLPAR-mem processing

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jun 16 2010 - 21:05:42 EST


From: "Jan-Bernd Themann" <ossthema@xxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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