Re: workqueue deadlock

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> This is actually not cpu-hotplug safe ;)  
> 
> > > > 	{
> > > > 		int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
> > > > 		/*
> > > > 		 * Interrupts/softirqs are hotplug-safe:
> > > > 		 */
> > > > 		if (in_interrupt())
> > > > 			return;
> > > > 		if (current->hotplug_depth++)
> > > > 			return;
> 
> <preempt, cpu hot-unplug, resume on different CPU>
> 
> > > > 		current->hotplug_lock = &per_cpu(hotplug_lock, cpu);
> 
> <use-after-free>
> 
> > > > 		mutex_lock(current->hotplug_lock);
> 
> And it sleeps, so we can't use preempt_disable().

i explained it in the other mail - this is the 'read' side. The 'write' 
side (code actually wanting to /do/ a CPU hotplug state transition) has 
to take /all/ these locks before it can take a CPU down.

so this is still a global CPU hotplug lock, but made scalable.

	Ingo