Re: [PATCHv2 for-3.9] pci: avoid work_on_cpu for nested SRIOV probes

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 08:04:47PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> So, the thing is there is no actual deadlock. If you're okay with releasing w/
> spurious lockdep warning, leaving things alone should be fine. An issue with
> mst's patch is that it actually changes the behavior to avoid a spurious
> warning.

Yes but in fact, isn't it cleaner to avoid work_on if we are going to run
on the local CPU, anyway?

> An alternative course would be leaving it alone now and remove the
> spurious warning during the coming devel cycle and mark it w/ -stable.
> 
> Thanks.

Okay. Could you send tested a version of work_on_nested?

> --
> tejun
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