aoe: use a kernel thread for transmissions

The dev_queue_xmit function needs to have interrupts enabled, so the most
simple way to get the locking right but still fulfill that requirement is
to use a process that can call dev_queue_xmit serially over queued
transmissions.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
index 5928a08c1f3f..a1c5e8aa08c0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
@@ -1110,14 +1110,14 @@ kthread(void *vp)
         return 0;
 }
 
-static void
+void
 aoe_ktstop(struct ktstate *k)
 {
         kthread_stop(k->task);
         wait_for_completion(&k->rendez);
 }
 
-static int
+int
 aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k)
 {
         struct task_struct *task;