Under the spinlock we call request_irq(), which allocates memory with GFP_KERNEL,
This causes the following trace when DEBUG_SPINLOCK is enabled, it can cause
the following trace:
BUG: spinlock wrong CPU on CPU#2, ethtool/2595
lock: ffff8801f9cbc2b0, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: ethtool/2595, .owner_cpu: 0
Pid: 2595, comm: ethtool Not tainted 3.0.18 #2
Call Trace:
spin_bug+0xa2/0xf0
do_raw_spin_unlock+0x71/0xa0
_raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x10
mlx4_assign_eq+0x12b/0x190 [mlx4_core]
mlx4_en_activate_cq+0x252/0x2d0 [mlx4_en]
? mlx4_en_activate_rx_rings+0x227/0x370 [mlx4_en]
mlx4_en_start_port+0x189/0xb90 [mlx4_en]
mlx4_en_set_ringparam+0x29a/0x340 [mlx4_en]
dev_ethtool+0x816/0xb10
? dev_get_by_name_rcu+0xa4/0xe0
dev_ioctl+0x2b5/0x470
handle_mm_fault+0x1cd/0x2d0
sock_do_ioctl+0x5d/0x70
sock_ioctl+0x79/0x2f0
do_vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x340
sys_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Replacing with mutex, which is enough in this case.
Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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