From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758951AbZBBWrU (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:47:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753502AbZBBWrJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:47:09 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40378 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753316AbZBBWrI (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:47:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:41:31 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Balaji Rao Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cbou@mail.ru, andy@openmoko.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] pcf50633_charger: Enable periodic charging restart Message-Id: <20090202144131.41a8d279.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090127135312.6875.94604.stgit@fedora.yogi> References: <20090127135238.6875.26314.stgit@fedora.yogi> <20090127135312.6875.94604.stgit@fedora.yogi> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:23:12 +0530 Balaji Rao wrote: > @@ -157,6 +213,7 @@ pcf50633_mbc_irq_handler(int irq, void *data) > mbc->usb_online = 0; > mbc->usb_active = 0; > pcf50633_mbc_usb_curlim_set(mbc->pcf, 0); > + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mbc->charging_restart_work); > } eek, can't call cancel_delayed_work_sync() from an interrupt handler! If the work was actually running on this CPU or on a different one, cancel_delayed_work_sync() will need to wait for it to complete. The kernel will explode in many tinkly little pieces.