linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] Clean up workqueue.c with respect to the freezer based cpu-hotplug

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Date:	Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:20:05 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	paulmck@...ibm.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	mingo@...e.hu, dipankar@...ibm.com, dino@...ibm.com,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] Clean up workqueue.c with respect to the freezer based cpu-hotplug

On 04/04, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:28:28PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > 
> > 	worker_thread:
> > 
> > 		for (;;) {
> > 			try_to_freeze();
> > 
> > 			prepare_to_wait();
> > 			if (...)
> > 				schedule();
> > 			finish_wait();
> > 		}
> > 
> > This is racy, we can miss freeze_process()->signal_wake_up() if it happens
> > between try_to_freeze() and prepare_to_wait(). We have to check TIF_FREEZE
> > before entering schedule() if we want to fix this race.
> 
> Yes that needs a fix as well. Oh dear, freezer is so fragile to break!
> 
> > Should we? I don't know. This will uglify the code, and the probability
> > of this race is very low.
> 
> Would be nice to fix IMO. Atleast serves to show "how to make your code
> freezer friendly".

This is funny. I "noticed" this race a long ago, when the ->freezeable flag
was introduced. However, looking at 2.6.20 I see that the patch was correct,
and this race was in fact introduced by me in

	[PATCH 1/1] workqueue: don't migrate pending works from the dead CPU
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117062192709871

I'll send a fix on weekend.

Oleg.

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