netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4] r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled

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Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:18:23 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Kyle Lucke <klucke@...ibm.com>,
	Raghavendra Koushik <raghavendra.koushik@...erion.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock

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@...zoreil.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/r8169.c |   25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

applied 1-4


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