linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v5.6-rc5

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Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:33:46 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v5.6-rc5

Hello, Linus.

Workqueue has been incorrectly round-robining per-cpu work items.
Hillf's patch fixes that. The other patch documents memory-ordering
properties of workqueue operations.

Thanks.

The following changes since commit 0bf999f9c5e74c7ecf9dafb527146601e5c848b9:

  linux/pipe_fs_i.h: fix kernel-doc warnings after @wait was split (2020-02-12 11:54:08 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-5.6-fixes

for you to fetch changes up to aa202f1f56960c60e7befaa0f49c72b8fa11b0a8:

  workqueue: don't use wq_select_unbound_cpu() for bound works (2020-03-10 10:30:51 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Andrea Parri (1):
      workqueue: Document (some) memory-ordering properties of {queue,schedule}_work()

Hillf Danton (1):
      workqueue: don't use wq_select_unbound_cpu() for bound works

 include/linux/workqueue.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 kernel/workqueue.c        | 14 ++++++++------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

-- 
tejun