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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211:  Fix deadlock in ieee80211_do_stop.
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:04:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE56AAB.7080507@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE56892.9090606@candelatech.com>

Hello, Ben.

On 11/18/2010 06:55 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> I understand your desire for a stack dump, but it appears that sysrq-t
> isn't getting everything you want, for whatever reason.

Can you please try again and investigate why it's not working?  If
task dump is not working as expected, there is a much more serious
problem than wireless locking up.

> Does my explanation of the rtnl deadlock that I posted near the beginning
> of this thread (with some backtraces to back that up) make sense, or
> are my assumptions invalid?

Yes, it makes sense.  At this point, I'm fairly sure that something is
holding the workqueue but I really can't tell anything without proper
stack dump.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12 20:07 [PATCH] mac80211: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_do_stop greearb
2010-11-12 20:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-12 20:16   ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 20:49 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-12 20:57   ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 21:08     ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-12 21:51       ` Ben Greear
2010-11-13 10:34       ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-15 21:16         ` Ben Greear
2010-11-16 14:19           ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-16 16:51             ` Ben Greear
2010-11-17  8:55               ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-17 17:37                 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-16 17:40             ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-17  8:47               ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-17 18:53                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-17 18:59                   ` Ben Greear
2010-11-17 19:03                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-18  6:34                   ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-18  7:07                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-18  7:22                       ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-18 16:59                         ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-19 14:34                           ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 17:57                             ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-19 20:55                               ` Ben Greear
2010-11-19 22:27                                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-08 17:36                                   ` Ben Greear
2010-12-08 18:19                                     ` Ben Greear
2010-12-08 18:28                                       ` Ben Greear
2010-12-09 14:34                                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-09 14:42                                           ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-09 14:46                                             ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-09 16:17                                               ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]                                                 ` <4D0156F6.4000306@candelate ch.com>
2010-12-09 17:27                                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-12-09 22:23                                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-12-10 15:11                                                   ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-10 16:35                                                     ` Ben Greear
2010-11-18 17:55                         ` Ben Greear
2010-11-18 18:04                           ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-11-18 18:11                             ` Ben Greear
2010-11-17 20:13             ` Ben Greear

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