linux-kernel - [PATCH] workqueue: insert warn_on_once() into wq_worker_waking

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Message-Id: <1351260229-2098-1-git-send-email-js1304@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:03:49 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: insert warn_on_once() into wq_worker_waking_up()

Recently, workqueue code has gone through some changes and we found some bugs
related to this. To prevent futher bugs in advance, add WARN_ON_ONCE() in
wq_worker_waking_up(). When worker is not WORKER_NOT_RUNNIG state,
it should be binded to it's associated cpu and executed in that cpu.
Add code for checking this.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index a1135c6..1a65132 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -739,8 +739,10 @@ void wq_worker_waking_up(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct worker *worker = kthread_data(task);
 
-	if (!(worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING))
+	if (!(worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING)) {
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(worker->pool->gcwq->cpu != cpu);
 		atomic_inc(get_pool_nr_running(worker->pool));
+	}
 }
 
 /**
-- 
1.7.9.5

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