Re: [PATCH 2/5] usb/isp1760: Remove false error printout

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* Arvid Brodin | 2011-04-27 21:43:10 [+0200]:

>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> If this is normal please add a comment where this happens. I tried to
>> remove the URB from the hardware so it does complete after removal.
>
>As far as I can see, what happens is that sometimes when unlinking
>(dequeueing) an urb with an active ptd, the ptd finishes while
>urb_dequeue() is executing within its spinlock, but before the ptd is
>zeroed out. This sets the interrupt flag for the ptd, and when the
>interrupt is later executed, priv->xxxints[x].qh for the ptd has been
>set to NULL by urb_dequeue(). It happens rather frequently when running
>the unlink tests in the usbtest suite.

I see. Okay so the interrupts occurs while  we are holding the spinlock.
So it is a tiny race. Could it help if were checking the skip_map?

Sebastian
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