tg3: use flush_work_keventd()

Convert tg3 over to flush_work_keventd().  Remove nasty now-unneeded deadlock
avoidance logic.

(akpm: bypassed maintainers, sorry.  There are other patches which depend on
this)

Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c
index e5e901ecd808..0c0f9c817321 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tg3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c
@@ -3716,10 +3716,8 @@ static void tg3_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
         unsigned int restart_timer;
 
         tg3_full_lock(tp, 0);
-        tp->tg3_flags |= TG3_FLAG_IN_RESET_TASK;
 
         if (!netif_running(tp->dev)) {
-                tp->tg3_flags &= ~TG3_FLAG_IN_RESET_TASK;
                 tg3_full_unlock(tp);
                 return;
         }
@@ -3750,8 +3748,6 @@ static void tg3_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
                 mod_timer(&tp->timer, jiffies + 1);
 
 out:
-        tp->tg3_flags &= ~TG3_FLAG_IN_RESET_TASK;
-
         tg3_full_unlock(tp);
 }
 
@@ -7390,12 +7386,7 @@ static int tg3_close(struct net_device *dev)
 {
         struct tg3 *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-        /* Calling flush_scheduled_work() may deadlock because
-         * linkwatch_event() may be on the workqueue and it will try to get
-         * the rtnl_lock which we are holding.
-         */
-        while (tp->tg3_flags & TG3_FLAG_IN_RESET_TASK)
-                msleep(1);
+        flush_work_keventd(&tp->reset_task);
 
         netif_stop_queue(dev);
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.h b/drivers/net/tg3.h
index 4d334cf5a243..bd9f4f428e5b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tg3.h
+++ b/drivers/net/tg3.h
@@ -2228,7 +2228,7 @@ struct tg3 {
 #define TG3_FLAG_JUMBO_RING_ENABLE      0x00800000
 #define TG3_FLAG_10_100_ONLY            0x01000000
 #define TG3_FLAG_PAUSE_AUTONEG          0x02000000
-#define TG3_FLAG_IN_RESET_TASK          0x04000000
+
 #define TG3_FLAG_40BIT_DMA_BUG          0x08000000
 #define TG3_FLAG_BROKEN_CHECKSUMS       0x10000000
 #define TG3_FLAG_SUPPORT_MSI            0x20000000