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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueue: debug flushing deadlocks with lockdep
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:40:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070705144047.GA9548@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070705143217.GA170@tv-sign.ru>


* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:

> Currently it is allowed that work->func() does flush_workqueue() on 
> its own workqueue. So we have
> 
> 	run_workqueue()
> 		work->func()
> 			flush_workqueue()
> 				run_workqueue()
> 
> All but work->func() take wq->lockdep_map, I guess check_deadlock() 
> won't be happy.

yep.

> OTOH. Perhaps we can can forbid such a behaviour? Andrew, do you know 
> any good example of "keventd trying to flush its own queue" ?

i'd prefer to make the API a little bit stricter: such recursion is 
nasty. Btw., what mechanism prevents the second instance of 
run_workqueue() calling into a work->func() again?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-05 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-05 11:07 [PATCH 0/2] workqueue lockup debugging Johannes Berg
2007-07-05 11:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] workqueue: debug flushing deadlocks with lockdep Johannes Berg
2007-07-05 14:32   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-05 14:40     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-05 14:52       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-06 10:42         ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-05 11:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: debug work related " Johannes Berg
2007-07-05 15:36   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-06 10:43     ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-06 12:53       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-11 11:37         ` Johannes Berg

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