[rt2x00-users] [PATCH 3.3] rt2x00: fix random stalls

[Stanislaw Gruszka]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:45:21AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> >> > -       if (!rt2x00queue_threshold(entry->queue))
> >> > +       if (!rt2x00queue_threshold(entry->queue)) {
> >> > +               spin_lock_irq(&entry->queue->tx_lock);
> >> >                rt2x00queue_unpause_queue(entry->queue);
> >> > +               spin_unlock_irq(&entry->queue->tx_lock);
> >>
> >> Why do we need to disable interrupts here? spin_lock_bh should
> >> be sufficient.
> >
> > I'm not 100% sure, and I was to lazy to find out, and chose safer
> > version. I guess I need to find out now ...

Ok, locking with bh is fine.

> That is actually a good point of Helmut. In all other cases where the tx_lock
> is used we actually use spin_lock and spin_unlock. AFAIK we shouldn't mix
> the different spinlock variants, so with this the other uses may have to change
> as well.

We use this lock only in rt2x00mac_tx (2 times) with bh disabled by
generic net or mac80211 layer. And now from txdone in process context
(usb) or tasklet (pci), so existing spin_lock function version does not
need to be changed.

On the meantime, I realized that we should also serialize
rt2x00queue_threshold(). I'll post second version of a patch shortly.

Stanislaw