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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:18:23 -0500
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Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	Kyle Lucke <klucke@us.ibm.com>,
	Raghavendra Koushik <raghavendra.koushik@neterion.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
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Francois Romieu wrote:
> flush_scheduled_work() in net_device->close has a slight tendency
> to deadlock with tasks on the workqueue that hold RTNL.
> 
> rtl8169_close/down simply need the recovery tasks to not meddle
> with the hardware while the device is going down.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/r8169.c |   25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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