---

yaml --- r: 224486 b: refs/heads/master c: e1210d1 h: refs/heads/master v: v3
git-mirror · Nov 24, 2010 · 4efe23e · 4efe23e
1 parent 6b4f63a
commit 4efe23e
Show file tree

Hide file tree

Showing 2 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 37a118452cbc9c0cf0d23bfd16d3ca56058be754
+refs/heads/master: e1210d127d11fc40d229648c9754aa60776ef796
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c b/trunk/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
@@ -1499,8 +1499,15 @@ static int bnx2x_run_loopback(struct bnx2x *bp, int loopback_mode, u8 link_up)
 	 * updates that have been performed while interrupts were
 	 * disabled.
 	 */
-	if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU)
+	if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU) {
+		/* Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between
+		 * sch_direct_xmit() and bnx2x_run_loopback() (calling
+		 * bnx2x_tx_int()), as both are taking netif_tx_lock().
+		 */
+		local_bh_disable();
 		bnx2x_tx_int(fp_tx);
+		local_bh_enable();
+	}
 
 	rx_idx = le16_to_cpu(*fp_rx->rx_cons_sb);
 	if (rx_idx != rx_start_idx + num_pkts)