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From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [3.2-rc3] 100% CPU usage while in del_timer_sync from iwl3945_rs_free_sta
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:31:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111201133116.GD5706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3XZEeNF8_U__rOPMfiOFNjPTS6gb33CSjdwkhMdRmS+i3CTw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:13:42PM +0200, Eliad Peller wrote:
> i don't really care about temporarily reverting it.
> but maybe you can just add an "initialized" flag to iwl3945_rs_sta,
> and check it on free_sta?

This is not right solution, that will prevent hangs though, but
we generally wipe out used data, so any other problem could be
triggered.

Stanislaw 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-01 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-29 10:07 [3.2-rc3] 100% CPU usage while in del_timer_sync from iwl3945_rs_free_sta Michal Hocko
2011-11-29 11:39 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-11-30 10:10   ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-30 14:23     ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-11-30 14:03       ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-30 15:39         ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-12-01  8:58           ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-01 10:55             ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-01 11:59               ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-12-01 12:44                 ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-01 12:55                   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-12-01 13:13                     ` Eliad Peller
2011-12-01 13:31                       ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2011-12-01 13:37                       ` Sedat Dilek
2011-12-01 14:05                   ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-01 14:23                     ` Eliad Peller
2011-12-01 15:45                       ` John W. Linville
2011-12-01 12:04               ` Yong Zhang
2011-12-01 12:42                 ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-01  2:09 ` Yong Zhang

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