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Commit 42b5212f authored by David Vrabel's avatar David Vrabel Committed by David S. Miller
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xen-netback: stop the guest rx thread after a fatal error



After commit e9d8b2c2 (xen-netback:
disable rogue vif in kthread context), a fatal (protocol) error would
leave the guest Rx thread spinning, wasting CPU time.  Commit
ecf08d2d (xen-netback: reintroduce
guest Rx stall detection) made this even worse by removing a
cond_resched() from this path.

Since a fatal error is non-recoverable, just allow the guest Rx thread
to exit.  This requires taking additional refs to the task so the
thread exiting early is handled safely.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reported-by: default avatarJulien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Tested-by: default avatarJulien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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