Andrey reports e1000 corruption, and that a patch in vmware's ESX fixed
it.
The EEPROM corruption is triggered by concurrent access of the EEPROM
read/write. Putting a lock around it solve the problem.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK to avoid confusing lockdep]
Signed-off-by: Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>
Reported-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Cc: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Cc: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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