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  • Kirill Smelkov
  • linux
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  • linux
  • kernel
  • workqueue.c
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  • Johannes Berg's avatar
    workqueue: debug flushing deadlocks with lockdep · 4e6045f1
    Johannes Berg authored Oct 18, 2007
    
    
    In the following scenario:
    
    code path 1:
      my_function() -> lock(L1); ...; flush_workqueue(); ...
    
    code path 2:
      run_workqueue() -> my_work() -> ...; lock(L1); ...
    
    you can get a deadlock when my_work() is queued or running
    but my_function() has acquired L1 already.
    
    This patch adds a pseudo-lock to each workqueue to make lockdep
    warn about this scenario.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
    Acked-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
    Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    4e6045f1
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