On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 13:52 -0800, David Decotigny wrote: > In some cases, free_irq_cpu_rmap() is called while holding a lock > (eg. rtnl). This can lead to deadlocks, because it invokes > flush_scheduled_work() which ends up waiting for whole system > workqueue to flush, but some pending works might try to acquire the > lock we are already holding. > > This commit uses reference-counting to replace > irq_run_affinity_notifiers(). It also removes > irq_run_affinity_notifiers() altogether. > > Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <de...@googlers.com> [...]
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