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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/workqueue: Get rid of searching last executed worklet in probe_worklet_complete()
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:05:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090521130528.GA14149@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A153345.3040905@cn.fujitsu.com>

On 05/21, Zhaolei wrote:
>
> We don't need search workqueue's worklet list for worklet which was latest
> executed, instead, we can use a pointer in cpu_workqueue_stats to remember
> which worklet was just executed.

Minor nit,

> @@ -192,22 +192,11 @@ probe_worklet_complete(struct task_struct *wq_thread, void *work)
>  	goto end;
>
>  found_wq:
> -	list_for_each_entry(wfnode, &node->workfunclist, list) {
> -		u64 executed_time;
> +	executed_time = trace_clock_global() - node->last_workfunc->start_time;
> +	node->last_workfunc->total_time += executed_time;

Suppose that "enqueue" handler fails to allocate the memory for the new
work_struct.

This means that the "execute" handler does not record ->last_workfunc.

In that case probe_worklet_complete() uses the wrong workfunc_stats or
we can even crash if ->last_workfunc == NULL.

I think _execute() should set ->last_workfunc = NULL first, then serach
for wfnode. _complete() should check ->last_workfunc != NULL and return
if it is NULL.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-21 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-21 10:56 [PATCH] tracing/workqueue: Get rid of searching last executed worklet in probe_worklet_complete() Zhaolei
2009-05-21 13:05 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-05-22  0:42   ` [PATCH] tracing/workqueue: Get rid of searching last executedworklet " Zhaolei
2009-05-22  2:40 ` [PATCH v2] tracing/workqueue: Get rid of searching last executed worklet " Zhaolei
2009-05-22 18:37   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-26 20:23     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-27 18:32       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-24 21:30   ` Frederic Weisbecker

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