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SubjectRe: Lockup inside of stop_machine() during modprobe aes (was Re: Another AR5008 hang)
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:22:05 -0400, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:08:22 -0700 (PDT) Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > In particular, it seems that the kernel is deadlocking inside of
> > stop_machine() while flushing workqueues.
> > ...
>
> My guess would be that ieee80211 is calling crypto->request_module()
> under rtnl_lock, and the fact that rtnl_lock is held is causing
> modprobe->stop_machine to not complete.
>
> > P.S. I am now quite certain that I was mistaken in saying that 2.6.33 was
> > affected. This seems to just be a 2.6.34 issue.
>
> OK, thanks, I'll ask Rafael and Maciej to track this as a post-2.6.33
> regression, probably wireless.

Thanks!

- Ben



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