Re: 2.6.22-rc6 spurious hangs

[Ingo Molnar]

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > ->disconnect_pending is used without any locks/barriers, perhaps 
> > > this is the reason.
> 
> I misread cinergyt2_release, it checks !->disconnect_pending, so it is 
> very clear why cinergyt2_query_rc() tries to take the mutex.
> 
> > > I'll try to look further tomorrow. In any case, cinergyT2 should not 
> > > use flush_scheduled_work() at all.
> > 
> > would the hack below be worth trying, to see whether there are any 
> > further problems?
[...]
> I don't think we can just kill flush_scheduled_work(). We can use 
> cancel_rearming_delayed_work() instead of 
> cancel_delayed_work()+flush_scheduled_work()
> 
> Still we can't do this under cinergyt2->sem, because cinergyt2_query() 
> takes it too. This all looks very wrong to me, I hope maintaners can 
> explain.

i've Cc:-ed the maintainers.

	Ingo
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