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    padata: Remove broken queue flushing · 07928d9b
    Herbert Xu authored
    The function padata_flush_queues is fundamentally broken because
    it cannot force padata users to complete the request that is
    underway.  IOW padata has to passively wait for the completion
    of any outstanding work.
    
    As it stands flushing is used in two places.  Its use in padata_stop
    is simply unnecessary because nothing depends on the queues to
    be flushed afterwards.
    
    The other use in padata_replace is more substantial as we depend
    on it to free the old pd structure.  This patch instead uses the
    pd->refcnt to dynamically free the pd structure once all requests
    are complete.
    
    Fixes: 2b73b07a ("padata: Flush the padata queues actively")
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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