Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] ravb/sh_eth: fix sleep in atomic by reusing shared ethtool handlers

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 11:12:38 +0300

> For ages trivial changes to RAVB and SuperH ethernet links by means of
> standard 'ethtool' trigger a 'sleeping function called from invalid
> context' bug, to visualize it on r8a7795 ULCB:
 ...
> The root cause is that an attempt to modify ECMR and GECMR registers
> only when RX/TX function is disabled was too overcomplicated in its
> original implementation, also processing of an optional Link Change
> interrupt added even more complexity, as a result the implementation
> was error prone.
> 
> The new locking scheme is confirmed to be correct by dumping driver
> specific and generic PHY framework function calls with aid of ftrace
> while running more or less advanced tests.
> 
> Please note that sh_eth patches from the series were built-tested only.
> 
> On purpose I do not add Fixes tags, the reused PHY handlers were added
> way later than the fixed problems were firstly found in the drivers.
> 
> Changes from v1 to v2:
> * the original patches are split to bugfixes and enhancements only,
>   both v1 and v2 series are absolutely equal in total, thus I omit
>   description of changes in individual patches,
> * the latter implies that there should be no strict need for retesting,
>   but because formally two series are different, I have to drop the tags
>   given by Geert and Andrew, please send your tags again.

Series applied with Fixes: tags of patches 8 and 9 fixed up.

Thanks.