From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Fix possible lockup on close
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:52:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474783D9.2070700@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071120035134.970DCDDE9E@ozlabs.org>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
> netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
> rtnl lock from a workqueue context, and thus that can deadlock.
>
> This reworks things a bit in that area to avoid the problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>
applied #upstream-fixes (2.6.24-rc)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-24 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-20 3:50 [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Fix possible lockup on close Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-20 3:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-24 1:52 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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