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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

      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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