Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] net/bridge/br_if.c: don't use _WORK_NAR | Date | Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:15:00 +0000 |
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Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:
> > Called by what? Something outside of br_if.c? > > No. if cancel_delayed_work() fails, the work may sit pending in cwq->worklist, > or it may be running right now, waiting for rtnl_mutex.
OIC. I understood "called" to mean "scheduled", but that's not what you meant.
> > Hmmm... cancel_delayed_work() in del_nbp() probably ought to be followed by > > a flush_scheduled_work(). > > Yes, but this deadlocks: we hold rtnl_mutex, and work->func() takes it too.
Oh, yuck!
Hmmm... You've got a work_struct (well, a delayed_work actually) - can you just punt the destruction of the object over to keventd to perform, I wonder?
The big problem with that that I see is that the workqueue facility has no guards in place against a work_struct's handler function running on several CPUs at once in response to the same work_struct.
> I think the fix should be so that port_carrier_check() does get/put on > "struct net_bridge_port" (container), but not on "struct net_device", and
I'm not sure how this helps. You still have to get rid of the net_device at some point.
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