Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:31:17 +0100
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [3.2-rc3] 100% CPU usage while in del_timer_sync from
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:13:42PM +0200, Eliad Peller wrote:
> i don't really care about temporarily reverting it.
> but maybe you can just add an "initialized" flag to iwl3945_rs_sta,
> and check it on free_sta?

This is not right solution, that will prevent hangs though, but
we generally wipe out used data, so any other problem could be
triggered.

Stanislaw