Re: [PATCH v3] lib: cpu_rmap: avoid flushing all workqueues

[David Decotigny]

Thanks,

I appreciate your review and clarification, as I was afraid there
could be something I missed. I will send v4 of this patch: an update
with the cpu_rmap_get helper that Josh suggested and the
"free_cpu_rmap" alias removed.

Regards,

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David Decotigny

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Ben Hutchings
<bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 12:36 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:57:09AM -0800, David Decotigny wrote:
>> > In some cases, free_irq_cpu_rmap() is called while holding a lock
>> > (eg. rtnl). This can lead to deadlocks, because it invokes
>> > flush_scheduled_work() which ends up waiting for whole system
>> > workqueue to flush, but some pending works might try to acquire the
>> > lock we are already holding.
>> >
>> > This commit uses reference-counting to replace
>> > irq_run_affinity_notifiers(). It also removes
>> > irq_run_affinity_notifiers() altogether.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> You might consider adding a cpu_rmap_get to parallel cpu_rmap_put.
>>
>> Also, why keep free_cpu_rmap around at this point?  As far as I can
>> tell, it has no callers.
>>
>> Otherwise, this looks good to me.
>
> I intended to make cpu_rmap usable independently of IRQ notification,
> although as you note there have been no other users so far.
> free_cpu_rmap() is now effectively an alias for cpu_rmap_put(), and the
> latter *does* have a caller.  So perhaps cpu_rmap_put() should be extern
> and the alias dropped.
>
> Ben.
>
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