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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: Avoid that vhost_work_flush() locks up
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:49:20 +0200
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On 07/05/13 10:36, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Wake up work->done waiters even if the TIF_NEED_RESCHED task flag
> has been set. This patch fixes a regression introduced in commit
> d550dda (kernel v3.4).
>
> Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60505

(replying to my own e-mail)

Please ignore this patch. Although it might help to wake up 
vhost_work_flush() earlier, the patch description does not match the 
patch itself and the patch does not fix the vhost_work_flush() lockup.

Bart.