[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "net: mv643xx_eth: update statistics timer from timer context" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: mv643xx_eth: update statistics timer from timer context

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:57:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] net: mv643xx_eth: update statistics timer from timer context
 only

commit 041b4ddb84989f06ff1df0ca869b950f1ee3cb1c upstream.

Each port driver installs a periodic timer to update port statistics
by calling mib_counters_update. As mib_counters_update is also called
from non-timer context, we should not reschedule the timer there but
rather move it to timer-only context.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
index 7197e0f..ae50dd6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
@@ -1273,15 +1273,13 @@ static void mib_counters_update(struct mv643xx_eth_private *mp)
 	p->rx_discard += rdlp(mp, RX_DISCARD_FRAME_CNT);
 	p->rx_overrun += rdlp(mp, RX_OVERRUN_FRAME_CNT);
 	spin_unlock_bh(&mp->mib_counters_lock);
-
-	mod_timer(&mp->mib_counters_timer, jiffies + 30 * HZ);
 }

 static void mib_counters_timer_wrapper(unsigned long _mp)
 {
 	struct mv643xx_eth_private *mp = (void *)_mp;
-
 	mib_counters_update(mp);
+	mod_timer(&mp->mib_counters_timer, jiffies + 30 * HZ);
 }


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