Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
> netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
> rtnl lock from a workqueue context, and thus that can deadlock.
>
> This reworks things a bit in that area to avoid the problem.
>
> Signed-
It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
rtnl lock from a workqueue context, and thus that can deadlock.
This reworks things a bit in that area to avoid the problem.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTE