Re: [PATCH 1/6] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Perform device register in the per-channel work element

Greg KH
2015-03-12T09:02:32Z

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:56:54PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> This patch is a continuation of the rescind handling cleanup work. We cannot
> block in the global message handling work context especially if we are blocking
> waiting for the host to wake us up. I would like to thank
> Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> for observing this problem.
>
> The current Linux 4.0 RC3 tree is broken and this patch fixes the problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> ---
> drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> drivers/hv/connection.c | 6 ++-
> drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

This is a very big patch so late in the -rc cycle. Is there some patch
that got merged in 4.0-rc1 that I should be reverting instead to fix
things up?

thanks,

greg k-h