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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2013-01-04 12:50:30 -0500
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2013-01-04 12:59:30 -0500
commit360e1a534901592b289ba8768fc71b6e6ad49070 (patch)
treeda7e6cf25fc31ebe1279fcfd4ab67dc45eeb95ec /net/sunrpc
parent6db6dd7d3fd8f7c765dabc376493d6791ab28bd6 (diff)
downloadlinux-360e1a534901592b289ba8768fc71b6e6ad49070.tar.gz
SUNRPC: Partial revert of commit 168e4b39d1afb79a7e3ea6c3bb246b4c82c6bdb9
Partially revert commit (SUNRPC: add WARN_ON_ONCE for potential deadlock).
The looping behaviour has been tracked down to a knownn issue with
workqueues, and a workaround has now been implemented.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@netapp.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [>= 3.7]
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sunrpc')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/clnt.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 822f020fa7f4..1915ffe598e3 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -610,11 +610,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_killall_tasks);
  */
 void rpc_shutdown_client(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
 {
-	/*
-	 * To avoid deadlock, never call rpc_shutdown_client from a
-	 * workqueue context!
-	 */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER);
 	might_sleep();
 
 	dprintk_rcu("RPC:       shutting down %s client for %s\n",