Re: 2.6.22-rc6 spurious hangs

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On 06/29, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> Well, not really maintainer but I think the short term soluton (at
> least for the RC part) is to alter cinergyt2_query_rc to take
> cinergyt2->sem only around cinergyt2_command(). Ther rest of the
> polling function need not be protected as it does nto tun concurently
> with itself.

Can't comment, because I know nothing about this stuff.

But, unless I misread this patch, it doesn't solve the problem.
cinergyt2_release() calls flush_scheduled_work() under ->sem,
but ->query_work takes it too, no?

Quoting myself,
>
>  I think cinergyt2_query() and cinergyt2_query_rc() should not use
>  ->disconnect_pending at all. cinergyt2_disconnect() should set
>  ->disconnect_pending = 1 and cancel both delayed_works.
>
>  cinergyt2_release() checks !->disconnect_pending and does the cancel
>  without mutex.

Possible?

Oleg.

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