On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Oliver Neukum <oli...@neukum.org> wrote: > On Thursday 11 April 2013 20:11:13 Ming Lei wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Oliver Neukum <oli...@neukum.org> wrote: >> > >> > Sorry, I misunderstood. >> >> No problem, :-) >> >> > >> > Task A Task B >> > queue >> > >> > queue work >> > request a reset >> > >> > allocate memory and block >> > cancel the work >> > >> > shit happened >> >> If I understand the case correctly, the above deadlock can be avoided >> by canceling rx/tx URBs at the end of pre_reset() or usbnet_disconnect(), > > No. cancel_work_sync() must wait for the work. The work will not finish.
The work will complete when memory is reclaimed, and the rx/tx path is still working, so memory reclaim can continue and the deadlock may not be caused, may it? Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
