On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 16:41 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:06:39PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
> > netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
> > rtnl lock from a workqueue cont
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:41:23 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:06:39PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
> > netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
> > rtnl lock f
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:06:39PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
> netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
> rtnl lock from a workqueue context, and thus that can deadlock.
>
> This reworks things a bit in th
It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
rtnl lock from a workqueue context, and thus that can deadlock.
This reworks things a bit in that area to avoid the problem.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTE
