> On May 27, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> It sounds like there are real problems here that would be fixed by changing
> the mutex strategy and limiting VPD read lengths, but that we don't quite
> have consensus on how to solve them yet.
I have a new pair of patches that I am getti
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 05:00:37PM -0700, Mark D Rustad wrote:
> Some devices have a problem with concurrent VPD access to different
> functions of the same physical device, so move the protecting mutex
> from the pci_vpd structure to the pci_bus structure. There are a
> number of reports on suppor
On 05/20/2015 09:00 AM, Rustad, Mark D wrote:
On May 19, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Alexander Duyck
wrote:
My suspicion is that we have a number of bugs floating around out there like
the Broadcom issue. Specifically, one of the ones I found was that the r8169
seems to have a similar issue as called
> On May 19, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Alexander Duyck
> wrote:
>
> My suspicion is that we have a number of bugs floating around out there like
> the Broadcom issue. Specifically, one of the ones I found was that the r8169
> seems to have a similar issue as called out in the email thread at
> http:
On 05/18/2015 05:00 PM, Mark D Rustad wrote:
Some devices have a problem with concurrent VPD access to different
functions of the same physical device, so move the protecting mutex
from the pci_vpd structure to the pci_bus structure. There are a
number of reports on support sites for a variety
