Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:35951 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751829Ab1CRAvA (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:51:00 -0400 Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so3368259wya.19 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:50:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1296119711-4024-1-git-send-email-vnatarajan@atheros.com> <1296119711-4024-2-git-send-email-vnatarajan@atheros.com> <1296119711-4024-3-git-send-email-vnatarajan@atheros.com> <1296119711-4024-4-git-send-email-vnatarajan@atheros.com> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:20:59 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ath9k: Fix a locking related issue. From: Vivek Natarajan To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Vivek Natarajan , linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Vivek Natarajan wrote: >> Spin_lock has been tried to be acquired twice from ath9k_tasklet >> to ath_reset which resulted in a machine freeze. >> >> Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan >> --- > > Was this a stable fix? :( > Actually this was meant to be a quickfix for the panic we had noticed. A proper fix would be to review all the spinlocks in ath9k and do a revamp. Anyhow, such a revamp might take some time and before that we will have this patch for stable. Thanks a lot, I will resend this to stable. Vivek.