linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] workqueue: debug possible endless loop in cancel_rearming_delayed

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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:21:57 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] workqueue: debug possible endless loop in cancel_rearming_delayed_work

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:53:54PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
...
> Yes, after spending another two hours working out why my fix was
> then hanging in cancel_rearming_delayed_work() I was a little bit
> annoyed at the now obviously misleading comment. Five minutes later

I agree with your feelings, but strictly speaking it's not "obviously
misleading":

" * cancel_rearming_delayed_work - reliably kill off a delayed
keventd work whose handler rearms the delayed work."

And all your rearmed works were, probably, reliably killed!

> I'd fixed the bug properly. A better comment would have saved me two
> hours of wasted time.....

It seems to be an Achilles' heel of linux... 

Regards,
Jarek P.
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