Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
	drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
	net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
	net/wireless/nl80211.c

The ath9k Kconfig conflict was a change of a Kconfig option name right
next to the deletion of another option.

The xen-netback conflict was overlapping changes involving the
handling of the notify list in xen_netbk_rx_action().

Batman conflict resolution provided by Antonio Quartulli, basically
keep everything in both conflict hunks.

The nl80211 conflict is a little more involved.  In 'net' we added a
dynamic memory allocation to nl80211_dump_wiphy() to fix a race that
Linus reported.  Meanwhile in 'net-next' the handlers were converted
to use pre and post doit handlers which use a flag to determine
whether to hold the RTNL mutex around the operation.

However, the dump handlers to not use this logic.  Instead they have
to explicitly do the locking.  There were apparent bugs in the
conversion of nl80211_dump_wiphy() in that we were not dropping the
RTNL mutex in all the return paths, and it seems we very much should
be doing so.  So I fixed that whilst handling the overlapping changes.

To simplify the initial returns, I take the RTNL mutex after we try
to allocate 'tb'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index b5197dc..3d6833f 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -195,8 +195,12 @@ void local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);
 
 /*
- * We restart softirq processing for at most 2 ms,
- * and if need_resched() is not set.
+ * We restart softirq processing for at most MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART times,
+ * but break the loop if need_resched() is set or after 2 ms.
+ * The MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME provides a nice upper bound in most cases, but in
+ * certain cases, such as stop_machine(), jiffies may cease to
+ * increment and so we need the MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART limit as
+ * well to make sure we eventually return from this method.
  *
  * These limits have been established via experimentation.
  * The two things to balance is latency against fairness -
@@ -204,6 +208,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);
  * should not be able to lock up the box.
  */
 #define MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME  msecs_to_jiffies(2)
+#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART 10
 
 asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
 {
@@ -212,6 +217,7 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
 	unsigned long end = jiffies + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME;
 	int cpu;
 	unsigned long old_flags = current->flags;
+	int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART;
 
 	/*
 	 * Mask out PF_MEMALLOC s current task context is borrowed for the
@@ -265,7 +271,8 @@ restart:
 
 	pending = local_softirq_pending();
 	if (pending) {
-		if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched())
+		if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched() &&
+		    --max_restart)
 			goto restart;
 
 		wakeup_softirqd();