linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] workqueue: do a sanity check on new work

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:39:13 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matt Renzelmann <mjr@...wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] workqueue: do a sanity check on new work

Hello, Dan.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> There may be a better way to do this.  If someone tries to call
> shedule_work() on a work_struck before doing an INIT_WORK() then we
> hit the BUG_ON(!list_empty(&work->entry)) in __queue_work() and hang.
> Instead of that, we could just print a stack dump and return.

Hmmm... why not just change the BUG_ON() in __queue_work() to "if
(WARN_ON()) return;"?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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