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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25rc7 lockdep trace
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:52:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EE3B8C.8090707@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206784948.22530.128.camel@johannes.berg>

Johannes Berg wrote, On 03/29/2008 11:02 AM:

... 
> When you call cancel_work_sync(), the work struct will be grabbed by the
> code (really __cancel_work_timer) and removed from the queue. That just
> operates on bits and a spinlock, not locks held across the struct work
> function execution, and ensures it is race-free without needing any such
> locks

...

> However, as I just tried to explain, cancel_work_sync() _is_ safe to run
> while holding the RTNL because it doesn't need any runqueue lock.

These issues are so seldom now that I forget these details each time

"after use", so maybe I miss something again, but shouldn't this rather
read something like this?:

cancel_work_sync() _is_ safe to run while holding the RTNL against
works which don't take RTNL.

Regards,
Jarek P.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-29 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28  0:00 2.6.25rc7 lockdep trace Dave Jones
2008-03-28  1:55 ` Dave Jones
2008-03-29  0:34 ` David Miller
2008-03-29  0:54   ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-29  1:01     ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-29  1:09       ` David Miller
2008-04-02  8:51         ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-29  1:06     ` David Miller
2008-03-29 10:02       ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-29 12:52         ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2008-03-29 12:50           ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-03 20:48         ` David Miller
2008-04-04 14:48           ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-11  5:40             ` David Miller
2008-06-11  7:08               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-11  7:10                 ` David Miller
2008-06-11  9:36               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-12  0:34                 ` David Miller
2008-06-12  6:29                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-11 10:40               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-12  0:31                 ` David Miller
2008-06-11 13:14               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-12  5:46               ` David Miller
2008-06-12  7:20                 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12  8:23                   ` David Miller
2008-06-12  6:13               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-12  7:01                 ` David Miller
2008-06-12  7:47                   ` Jarek Poplawski

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