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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueues: make get_online_cpus() useable for
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens () de ! ibm ! com>
Date: 2008-06-30 22:14:17
Message-ID: 20080630221417.GA4727 () osiris ! boeblingen ! de ! ibm ! com
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 08:51:31PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > workqueue_cpu_callback(CPU_DEAD) flushes cwq->thread under
> > cpu_maps_update_begin(). This means that the multithreaded workqueues can't
> > use get_online_cpus() due to the possible deadlock, very bad and very old
> > problem.
> >
> > Introduce the new state, CPU_POST_DEAD, which is called after
> > cpu_hotplug_done() but before cpu_maps_update_done().
> >
> > Change workqueue_cpu_callback() to use CPU_POST_DEAD instead of CPU_DEAD.
> > This means that create/destroy functions can't rely on get_online_cpus()
> > any longer and should take cpu_add_remove_lock instead.
>
> Ah, nice!
>
> > --- 26-rc2/kernel/cpu.c~WQ_4_GET_ONLINE_CPUS 2008-05-18 15:44:18.000000000 +0400
> > +++ 26-rc2/kernel/cpu.c 2008-06-29 20:03:19.000000000 +0400
> > @@ -261,6 +261,11 @@ out_allowed:
> > set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &old_allowed);
> > out_release:
> > cpu_hotplug_done();
> > + if (!err) {
>
> This should be (!err && !cpu_online(cpu)), no?
>
> This is because it might be that __stop_machine_run() succeeded, but
> take_cpu_down() failed and therefore our cpu is still online.
Erk.. it's ok as is since err will contain the return value of take_cpu_down()
after err = kthread_stop(p).
Never mind, just ignore me :)
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