Re: workqueue deadlock

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Date: Fri Dec 08 2006 - 02:59:52 EST


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() ..:)

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Regards,
vatsa
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