Re: [PATCH, RFC] reimplement flush_workqueue()

[Srivatsa Vaddagiri]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:31:39PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > AFAIK this deadlock originated from Andrew's patch here:
> >
> > 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/7/231
> 
> I don't think so. The core problem is not that we are doing unlock/sleep/lock
> with this patch. The thing is: work->func() can't take wq_mutex (and thus use
> flush_work/workqueue) because it is possible that CPU_DEAD holds this mutex
> and waits for us to complete(kthread_stop_info). I believe this bug is old.

Yes, this bug is quite old looks like. Thanks for correcting me.

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Regards,
vatsa
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