From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Shaw Vrana" <shawvrana@gmail.com>
Cc: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Auke Kok" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: e1000_down and tx_timeout worker race cleaning the transmit buffers
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:33:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145583208.3195.22.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604201942.07009.shawvrana@acm.org>
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:42 -0700, Shaw Vrana wrote:
> I'll bite! Here's a patch to add a call to flush_scheduled_work() in
> e1000_down. It's against 2.6.16.9.
>
You're not following our discussion. It is not safe to call
flush_scheduled_work() in a driver's close() because it is holding the
rtnl and can deadlock with linkwatch_event() if it happens to be on the
workqueue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200604201035.00100.shaw@vranix.com>
2006-04-20 23:36 ` e1000_down and tx_timeout worker race cleaning the transmit buffers Herbert Xu
2006-04-20 23:51 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-20 22:36 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 1:27 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-21 1:33 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-21 0:10 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 2:37 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-21 2:40 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-21 1:24 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 13:27 ` Andy Gospodarek
2006-04-21 15:28 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 20:01 ` Andy Gospodarek
2006-04-21 19:00 ` Michael Chan
2006-04-21 20:46 ` Andy Gospodarek
2006-04-27 0:14 ` Shaw
2006-04-27 4:55 ` Auke Kok
2006-04-29 21:57 ` Shaw Vrana
2006-04-21 2:42 ` Shaw Vrana
2006-04-21 1:33 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2006-04-21 3:05 ` shaw
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