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SubjectRe: [Stable-review] [20/98] atl1c:use common_task instead of reset_task and link_chg_task
Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:33:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> From: Jie Yang <jie.yang@atheros.com>
>>
>> commit cb19054697e92a793f336380fd72c588521178ff upstream.
>>
>> use common_task instead of reset_task and link_chg_task, so it fix "call cancel_work_sync
>> from the work itself".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jie Yang <jie.yang@atheros.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> I'm going to test this one. I'm randomly seeing my ASUS 1005HA
> hanging after I replug the network cable. I noticed that the
> driver from the Atheros site doesn't have the issue at all. I
> spent a week-end trying to eliminate almost all of the diffs
> between the two drivers to try to spot the faulty code chunk,
> until I realized that I went past the failure point without
> noticing in time because the issue was too much random :-(

Not sure how much this is true or helps. While looking over that patch I was
wondering whether there could be a problem of not having an explicit
cancel_work_sync on the way down. It just seems to disable actions by setting
the flags to 0 but I somehow it felt like it still could be scheduled to run
doing nothing...

-Stefan
> Clearly a non-bisectable issue. But with just this fix, I'll
> be able to tell if the problem is definitely over.
>
> Regards,
> Willy
>
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