linux-kernel - Re: workqueue deadlock

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Date:	Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:28:21 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Dipankar <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Gautham shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: workqueue deadlock

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:54:07PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Could do, not sure. 

AFAICS it will deadlock for sure.

> I'm planning on converting all the locking around here
> to preempt_disable() though.

Will look forward to that patch. Its hard to dance around w/o a 
lock_cpu_hotplug() ..:)

-- 
Regards,
vatsa
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