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ixgb: fix smp polling race condition

Moved interrupt masking to before requesting the interrupt from the OS.
Moved interrupt enable to after netif_poll_enable.  This fixes a racy
BUG() where polling would be running on another CPU at the same time
that netif_poll_enable would run.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Auke Kok 19 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 5 4
      drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c

+ 5 - 4
drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c

@@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ ixgb_up(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter)
 	ixgb_configure_rx(adapter);
 	ixgb_alloc_rx_buffers(adapter);
 
+	/* disable interrupts and get the hardware into a known state */
+	IXGB_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, IMC, 0xffffffff);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_MSI
 	{
 	boolean_t pcix = (IXGB_READ_REG(&adapter->hw, STATUS) & 
@@ -272,9 +275,6 @@ ixgb_up(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter)
 		return err;
 	}
 
-	/* disable interrupts and get the hardware into a known state */
-	IXGB_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, IMC, 0xffffffff);
-
 	if((hw->max_frame_size != max_frame) ||
 		(hw->max_frame_size !=
 		(IXGB_READ_REG(hw, MFS) >> IXGB_MFS_SHIFT))) {
@@ -295,11 +295,12 @@ ixgb_up(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter)
 	}
 
 	mod_timer(&adapter->watchdog_timer, jiffies);
-	ixgb_irq_enable(adapter);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IXGB_NAPI
 	netif_poll_enable(netdev);
 #endif
+	ixgb_irq_enable(adapter);
+
 	return 0;
 }