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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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| e1000_hw.c | ||
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| e1000_main.c | ||
| e1000_osdep.h | ||
| e1000_param.c | ||