[openib-general] [PATCH] IB/ucm: fix deadlock in cleanup

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Nov 28 23:29:34 PST 2006


> >I seem to have lost this, maybe because I was waiting for an ack from
> >you, and also a report back from Michael about whether it helped.  Do
> >you guys both agree that this is a correct fix?
> 
> This fix definitely looks like it's needed to prevent a potential deadlock, but
> I haven't seen anything from Michael about the results of any tests.

There actually was an Ack from Sean, but I forgot that I promised to post the results
of my tests, so I kind of hoped it would make it in 2.6.19.

It does actually seem to fix a deadlock we see in regression - so I
think if not 2.6.19 we'll want it for -stable.

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MST




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