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Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:23:52 -0700
From:   Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        ssantosh@...nel.org
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, isdn@...ux-pingi.de, mingo@...e.hu,
        pebolle@...cali.nl, peterz@...radead.org,
        salvatore.benedetto@...el.com, tadeusz.struk@...el.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mm-commits@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
        linux-next@...r.kernel.org, sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com
Subject: Re: + softirq-fix-tasklet_kill-and-its-users.patch added to -mm tree

On 9/21/2016 1:09 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> didn't look into the issue, but this thing
>
Thanks for reporting Sergey.

>>> tasklet_init() == Init and Enable scheduling
> [..]
>>> @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ void tasklet_init(struct tasklet_struct
>>>  {
>>>  	t->next = NULL;
>>>  	t->state = 0;
>>> -	atomic_set(&t->count, 0);
>>> +	atomic_set(&t->count, 1);
>

    			^^^^^^^^
>>>  	t->func = func;
>>>  	t->data = data;
>>>  }
>
> seems to be in conflict with
>
Static helpers also needs to follow the API.

>  #define DECLARE_TASKLET(name, func, data) \
>  struct tasklet_struct name = { NULL, 0, ATOMIC_INIT(0), func, data }
> 						^^^^^^^
>
>  #define DECLARE_TASKLET_DISABLED(name, func, data) \
>  struct tasklet_struct name = { NULL, 0, ATOMIC_INIT(1), func, data }
> 						^^^^^^^
>

>
> as well as with the tasklet_{disable, enable} helpers
>
Those are fine since they work like a pair and the use count
is always balanced.

Am assuming one of the driver in your test is using the DECLARE_TASKLET
to init the tasklet and killed by tasklet_kill() which leaves that
tasklet to be still scheduled by tasklet action.

Can you please try below patch and see if you still see the issue ?
Attaching the same, just in case mailer eat the tabs.

Regards,
Santosh

 From e3e676e501a59b2a7de6e9f99ec3917c157e9caf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:58:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] softirq: fix DECLARE_TASKLET[_DISABLE] macros init state

In linux-next, commit 1f5e9c3bc47f ("softirq: fix tasklet_kill() and its 
users")
changed the init state of the tasklet but missed to update the macros.

Fix them too.

Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>
---
  include/linux/interrupt.h | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 72f0721..cabf575 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -521,10 +521,10 @@ struct tasklet_struct
  };

  #define DECLARE_TASKLET(name, func, data) \
-struct tasklet_struct name = { NULL, 0, ATOMIC_INIT(0), func, data }
+struct tasklet_struct name = { NULL, 0, ATOMIC_INIT(1), func, data }

  #define DECLARE_TASKLET_DISABLED(name, func, data) \
-struct tasklet_struct name = { NULL, 0, ATOMIC_INIT(1), func, data }
+struct tasklet_struct name = { NULL, 0, ATOMIC_INIT(2), func, data }


  enum
-- 
1.9.1








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