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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: "Maciej W\. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:53:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071015125301.GC3015@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64N.0709171750220.17606@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>

On 19-09-2007 16:38, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
...
> @@ -661,13 +664,22 @@ int phy_stop_interrupts(struct phy_devic
>  	if (err)
>  		phy_error(phydev);
>  
> +	free_irq(phydev->irq, phydev);
> +
>  	/*
> -	 * Finish any pending work; we might have been scheduled to be called
> -	 * from keventd ourselves, but cancel_work_sync() handles that.
> +	 * Cannot call flush_scheduled_work() here as desired because
> +	 * of rtnl_lock(), but we do not really care about what would
> +	 * be done, except from enable_irq(), so cancel any work
> +	 * possibly pending and take care of the matter below.
>  	 */
>  	cancel_work_sync(&phydev->phy_queue);

Hi,

Could you explain why cancel_work_sync() is better here than
flush_scheduled_work() wrt. rtnl_lock()?

Regards,
Jarek P.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-15 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19 14:38 [PATCH] PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-09-20 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-21 12:51   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-09-21 18:42     ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-15 12:53 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2007-10-15 17:03   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-16  6:21     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-16 17:19       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-17  8:58         ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-17  9:08           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-17  9:09           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-18  6:31           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-18  7:05             ` [PATCH] flush_work_sync vs. flush_scheduled_work " Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-18 15:48               ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-10-18 15:58                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-19  7:50                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-19  8:01                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-22  6:11                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-22 18:02                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-10-23  6:59                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-23  9:21                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-19  8:00                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-18 11:37             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-18 11:30           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-18 14:37             ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-18 15:31               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-19  8:17             ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-19 12:57               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-19 11:38             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-19 14:39               ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-19 17:58                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-19 21:46                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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