linux-kernel - Re: edac_core: crashes on shutdown

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Date:	Thu, 2 Dec 2010 20:54:05 +0100
From:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Tobias Karnat <tobias.karnat@...glemail.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: edac_core: crashes on shutdown

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:51:23 +0100
Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:14:12PM -0500, Florian Mickler wrote:
> > Yes. That should work. Once we stopped the workqueue and removed it
> > from the global list, do we actually need to set it to OP_OFFLINE?
> 
> I think yes, because we seem to protect ourselves in the actual
> edac_mc_workq_function() on exit, if we overlap the work items
> cancellation with the execution of the delayed work at the same time on
> a different cpu. Besides, it is a single assignment and it does cost us
> almost nothing.

true. I wonder if the flush workqueue waits for the work-function
to finish? 

> 
> > Also 00740c585 did fix a hang in edac_mc.c... could this also happen
> > in the edac_device_del_device/edac_pci_del_device functions?
> 
> Nope, because there we don't check ->op_state when we cancel the work
> items in the respective _teardown() functions - we simply cancel them
> unconditionally.
> 

But shouldn't we check ->op_state for those as well? Why don't we hang
for those functions in similar cases as your original patch fixed?

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