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From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
	"rajatja@google.com" <rajatja@google.com>,
	"dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mwifiex: wait firmware dump complete during card remove process
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:12:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170104021208.GA15537@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6067f1c99a749e6a0c265c725694fda@SC-EXCH04.marvell.com>

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 02:02:43PM +0000, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
> > > I could not find async version of cancel_work().
> > 
> > cancel_work() *is* asynchronous. It does not synchronize with the last
> > event, so you won't have the deadlock. (Remember: the synchronous
> > version is cancel_work_sync().)
> 
> My bad! What I meant is "I could not find async version of cancel_work_sync()"
> cancel_work() isn't available in http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/workqueue.c

It's in 4.9-rc1 (and it's available at the above link, at least by now).
See:

commit f72b8792d180948b4b3898374998f5ac8c02e539
Author: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 24 15:51:50 2016 -0600

    workqueue: add cancel_work()

But anyway:

> Anyways, clear_bit() after remove() during card reset would address the problem.

Yes, I think that's OK.

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-04  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-16 13:09 [PATCH v3 1/5] mwifiex: don't wait for main_process in shutdown_drv Amitkumar Karwar
2016-11-16 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] mwifiex: do not free firmware dump memory " Amitkumar Karwar
2016-11-16 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] mwifiex: get rid of drv_info* adapter variables Amitkumar Karwar
2016-11-16 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] mwifiex: wait firmware dump complete during card remove process Amitkumar Karwar
2016-11-16 19:01   ` Brian Norris
2016-11-21 17:36   ` Brian Norris
2016-11-24 12:14     ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-11-28 21:27       ` Brian Norris
2016-11-30 12:39         ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-11-30 18:33           ` Brian Norris
2016-12-01 14:02             ` Amitkumar Karwar
2017-01-04  2:12               ` Brian Norris [this message]
2016-11-16 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] mwifiex: move pcie_work and related variables inside card Amitkumar Karwar
2017-01-12 14:45 ` [v3,1/5] mwifiex: don't wait for main_process in shutdown_drv Kalle Valo

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