Re: [PATCH 2/3] workqueue: not allow recursion run_workqueue

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:06 +0100, Frédéric Weisbecker wrote:

> Ok.
> Oh but I haven't seen that Oleg said he prefered bug_on, because the
> system will deadlock instead....hmm...
> 
> Or perhaps keeping the things like the old way, but with a WARN_ONCE:
> 
> if (cwq->thread == current) {
>                /*
>                 * Don't ever think to flush workqueue from a work
>                 */
>                WARN_ONCE(1);
> 
>                run_workqueue(cwq);
>                active = 1;
> }
> 
> And then, the workqueue will flush...so it will behave correctly but
> will warn on this bad developer idea of flushing from a work.

lockdep already yells at you for doing that, and developers should run
with lockdep enabled -- or at least test stuff with lockdep enabled, so
I'm not exactly seeing what this will buy us.

> Actually I don't understand when Lai says that it will actually not flush.

Yeah, his changelog is an utter mistery to many..