Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1425115AbWLHH7f (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 02:59:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1425116AbWLHH7f (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 02:59:35 -0500 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:53736 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1425115AbWLHH7e (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 02:59:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:28:21 +0530 From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri To: Andrew Morton Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Myron Stowe , Jens Axboe , Dipankar , Gautham shenoy Subject: Re: workqueue deadlock Message-ID: <20061208075821.GA11253@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vatsa@in.ibm.com References: <200612061726.14587.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20061207105148.20410b83.akpm@osdl.org> <20061207113700.dc925068.akpm@osdl.org> <20061208025301.GA11663@in.ibm.com> <20061207205407.b4e356aa.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061207205407.b4e356aa.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 564 Lines: 19 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/