Re: edac_core: crashes on shutdown

Borislav Petkov
2010-12-02T18:51:44Z

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:14:12PM -0500, Florian Mickler wrote:
> Yes. That should work. Once we stopped the workqueue and removed it
> from the global list, do we actually need to set it to OP_OFFLINE?

I think yes, because we seem to protect ourselves in the actual
edac_mc_workq_function() on exit, if we overlap the work items
cancellation with the execution of the delayed work at the same time on
a different cpu. Besides, it is a single assignment and it does cost us
almost nothing.

> Also 00740c585 did fix a hang in edac_mc.c... could this also happen
> in the edac_device_del_device/edac_pci_del_device functions?

Nope, because there we don't check ->op_state when we cancel the work
items in the respective _teardown() functions - we simply cancel them
unconditionally.

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