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| author | Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> | 2012-03-29 01:42:49 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-29 04:14:36 +0400 |
| commit | 7adf579c8babf62026e6aab1dee85e6b104d9936 (patch) | |
| tree | 23b3c94b6f97ecee2b7f6eea3f10871d737506c2 /drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | |
| parent | 828dc9da50f9632bbc5bc9dfa510619d13135015 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7adf579c8babf62026e6aab1dee85e6b104d9936.tar.xz | |
ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages
The IPMI driver would release a lock, deliver a message, then relock.
This is obviously ugly, and this patch converts the message handler
interface to use a tasklet to schedule work. This lets the receive
handler be called from an interrupt handler with interrupts enabled.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 73ebbb1a3269..01e53cd105dd 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -320,16 +320,8 @@ static int register_xaction_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) static void deliver_recv_msg(struct smi_info *smi_info, struct ipmi_smi_msg *msg) { - /* Deliver the message to the upper layer with the lock - released. */ - - if (smi_info->run_to_completion) { - ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg); - } else { - spin_unlock(&(smi_info->si_lock)); - ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg); - spin_lock(&(smi_info->si_lock)); - } + /* Deliver the message to the upper layer. */ + ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg); } static void return_hosed_msg(struct smi_info *smi_info, int cCode) @@ -481,9 +473,7 @@ static void handle_flags(struct smi_info *smi_info) start_clear_flags(smi_info); smi_info->msg_flags &= ~WDT_PRE_TIMEOUT_INT; - spin_unlock(&(smi_info->si_lock)); ipmi_smi_watchdog_pretimeout(smi_info->intf); - spin_lock(&(smi_info->si_lock)); } else if (smi_info->msg_flags & RECEIVE_MSG_AVAIL) { /* Messages available. */ smi_info->curr_msg = ipmi_alloc_smi_msg(); |