netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: pktgen: don't abuse current->state in pktgen_thread

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Date:	Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:52:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	oleg@...hat.com
Cc:	ying.huang@...el.com, ast@...mgrid.com, jstancek@...hat.com,
	brouer@...hat.com, mleitner@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pktgen: don't abuse current->state in
 pktgen_thread_worker()

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:33:34 +0200

> Commit 1fbe4b46caca "net: pktgen: kill the Wait for kthread_stop
> code in pktgen_thread_worker()" removed (in particular) the final
> __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING) and I didn't notice the previous
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE). This triggers the warning
> in __might_sleep() after return.
> 
> Afaics, we can simply remove both set_current_state()'s, and we
> could do this a long ago right after ef87979c273a2 "pktgen: better
> scheduler friendliness" which changed pktgen_thread_worker() to
> use wait_event_interruptible_timeout().
> 
> Reported-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Applied, thank you.
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