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xen/netback: Wake dealloc thread after completing zerocopy work
authorRoss Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:40:59 +0000 (15:40 +0100)
committerSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Tue, 6 Oct 2015 16:13:57 +0000 (09:13 -0700)
commitbbe84db6e0338145db18af53ad708d5ecef53c91
tree5d994bf2cbc71b810765f385cd3291a41d5630a3
parentd91305d64dcf59d9a9ef73b51776dc6b486a662a
xen/netback: Wake dealloc thread after completing zerocopy work

Waking the dealloc thread before decrementing inflight_packets is racy
because it means the thread may go to sleep before inflight_packets is
decremented. If kthread_stop() has already been called, the dealloc
thread may wait forever with nothing to wake it. Instead, wake the
thread only after decrementing inflight_packets.

Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <Konrad.wilk@oracle>
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 57b229063ae6dc65036209018dc7f4290cc026bb)
Signed-off-by: Annie Li <annie.li@oracle.com>
drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c