linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:59:32 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And "schedule_delayed_work()" uses WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

Uhhh. Someone changed that?

> In this email you seem to even agree that its' bogus, but then you
> wrote another email saying that the code isn't confused, because it
> uses "schedule_delayed_work()" on the CPU that it wants to run the
> code on.
>
> I'm saying that mm/vmstat.c should use "schedule_delayed_work_on()".

Then that needs to be fixed. Could occur in more places.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/