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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Renzelmann <mjr@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] workqueue: do a sanity check on new work
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:58:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120413185838.GC25091@elgon.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOS58YOSy-acB7Oara9ay1Zeznx0vCSB0Z23F+6KtEKZ56nXmQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:39:13AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Dan.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > There may be a better way to do this.  If someone tries to call
> > shedule_work() on a work_struck before doing an INIT_WORK() then we
> > hit the BUG_ON(!list_empty(&work->entry)) in __queue_work() and hang.
> > Instead of that, we could just print a stack dump and return.
> 
> Hmmm... why not just change the BUG_ON() in __queue_work() to "if
> (WARN_ON()) return;"?
> 

Good point.  I'll do that.

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-13 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-13 14:35 [RFC] workqueue: do a sanity check on new work Dan Carpenter
2012-04-13 16:39 ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-13 18:58   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-04-13 19:06   ` [patch v2] workqueue: change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON() Dan Carpenter
2012-04-16 21:57     ` Tejun Heo

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