ioat: fix tasklet tear down
Since commit 77873803 "net_dma: mark broken" we no longer pin dma engines active for the network-receive-offload use case. As a result the ->free_chan_resources() that occurs after the driver self test no longer has a NET_DMA induced ->alloc_chan_resources() to back it up. A late firing irq can lead to ksoftirqd spinning indefinitely due to the tasklet_disable() performed by ->free_chan_resources(). Only ->alloc_chan_resources() can clear this condition in affected kernels. This problem has been present since commit 3e037454 "I/OAT: Add support for MSI and MSI-X" in 2.6.24, but is now exposed. Given the NET_DMA use case is deprecated we can revisit moving the driver to use threaded irqs. For now, just tear down the irq and tasklet properly by: 1/ Disable the irq from triggering the tasklet 2/ Disable the irq from re-arming 3/ Flush inflight interrupts 4/ Flush the timer 5/ Flush inflight tasklets References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/27/282 https://lkml.or...
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