From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+a50c7541a4a55cd49b02@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in flush_workqueue (2)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:40:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181023194021.GA4182586@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181023142804.GC6850@thunk.org>
Hello,
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:28:04AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> The other, and I think better way, we could fix this is to have an
> alternate destroy_never_used_workqueue() function which skips the
> drain_workqueue().
Yeah, I'm okay with this approach. Maybe name it
destroy_workqueue_skip_drain()?
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-24 4:05 UTC|newest]
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2018-10-23 14:28 ` possible deadlock in flush_workqueue (2) Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-10-23 19:40 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2019-03-22 11:12 ` syzbot
2019-11-07 13:42 ` syzbot
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