From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix stopping RX BA session from timer
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:22:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sk6rlmap.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271667624.3873.12.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (Johannes Berg's message of "Mon\, 19 Apr 2010 11\:00\:24 +0200")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> Kalle reported that his system deadlocks since my
> recent work in this area. The reason quickly became
> apparent: we try to cancel_timer_sync() a timer
> from within itself. Fix that by making the function
> aware of the context it is called from.
I have now tested this for an hour and I can't reproduce the problem
anymore, earlier I was able to reproduce at least within a minute or
so. So I'm confident that the problem I saw is this fixed by this
patch.
Thank you very much for fixing this so quickly.
> Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
--
Kalle Valo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-19 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-15 19:44 regression: soft lockup with ath9k on master-2010-04-14 Kalle Valo
2010-04-15 19:58 ` John W. Linville
2010-04-19 6:29 ` Kalle Valo
2010-04-19 6:43 ` Johannes Berg
2010-04-19 7:19 ` Kalle Valo
2010-04-19 9:00 ` [PATCH] mac80211: fix stopping RX BA session from timer Johannes Berg
2010-04-19 11:22 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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