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Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mwifiex: wait firmware dump complete during card remove process

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Hi,

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 02:02:43PM +0000, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
> > > I could not find async version of cancel_work().
> > 
> > cancel_work() *is* asynchronous. It does not synchronize with the last
> > event, so you won't have the deadlock. (Remember: the synchronous
> > version is cancel_work_sync().)
> 
> My bad! What I meant is "I could not find async version of cancel_work_sync()"
> cancel_work() isn't available in http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/workqueue.c

It's in 4.9-rc1 (and it's available at the above link, at least by now).
See:

commit f72b8792d180948b4b3898374998f5ac8c02e539
Author: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Aug 24 15:51:50 2016 -0600

    workqueue: add cancel_work()

But anyway:

> Anyways, clear_bit() after remove() during card reset would address the problem.

Yes, I think that's OK.

Brian



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