linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Add RCU annotation for pwq list walk

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Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:53:53 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Add RCU annotation for pwq list walk

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:01:25PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> An additional check has been recently added to ensure that a RCU related lock
> is held while the RCU list is iterated.
> The `pwqs' are sometimes iterated without a RCU lock but with the &wq->mutex
> acquired leading to a warning.
> 
> Teach list_for_each_entry_rcu() that the RCU usage is okay if &wq->mutex
> is acquired during the list traversal.
> 
> Fixes: 28875945ba98d ("rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader checking")
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>

Applied to wq/for-5.5.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun