From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: Fix hung task timeout when initialization fails
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 07:11:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140501141156.GV3245@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPybu_3g=VBW+gGhveBJoc7=tCiPurP_r_+hqOU78bvsg8QJWw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:53:58AM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Thanks for your comments. This fix does not avoid the task being
> killed (which is not an error). What it does is that IF the task is
> killed or we are out of memory we will exit with all the resources
> properly released and no locks helds, giving the user a chance to
> reload/rebind the module instead of getting and unstable system that
> cannot even reboot without a powercycle.
How does it ensure that? What's to stop the task being killed after we
check to see if the task was killed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-01 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-30 10:36 Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-05-01 1:34 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-01 5:53 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-05-01 14:11 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-05-01 14:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-05-01 16:03 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-01 8:15 Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-05-01 16:09 ` Mark Brown
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