[GIT PULL] workqueue changes for v5.5-rc1

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Nov 25 2019 - 11:03:20 EST


Hello,

There have been sporadic reports of sanity checks in
destroy_workqueue() failing spuriously over the years. This pull
request contains the fix and its follow-up changes / fixes. There's
also a RCU annotation improvement.

Thanks.

The following changes since commit f60c55a94e1d127186566f06294f2dadd966e9b4:

Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt (2019-09-18 16:59:14 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-5.5

for you to fetch changes up to 49e9d1a9faf2f71fdfd80a30697ee9a15070626d:

workqueue: Add RCU annotation for pwq list walk (2019-11-15 11:53:35 -0800)

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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (1):
workqueue: Add RCU annotation for pwq list walk

Tejun Heo (5):
workqueue: Fix spurious sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
workqueue: Fix missing kfree(rescuer) in destroy_workqueue()
workqueue: Minor follow-ups to the rescuer destruction change
workqueue: more destroy_workqueue() fixes
workqueue: Fix pwq ref leak in rescuer_thread()

kernel/workqueue.c | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

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tejun