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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-08-24 14:22:47 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-08-24 18:01:32 +0200
commite41e704bc4f49057fc68b643108366e6e6781aa3 (patch)
tree8cc85208970ba0c9adf533903243e28c506f23ae /kernel
parent972fa1c5316d18c8297123e08e9b6930ca34f888 (diff)
downloadlinux-e41e704bc4f49057fc68b643108366e6e6781aa3.tar.gz
workqueue: improve destroy_workqueue() debuggability
Now that the worklist is global, having works pending after wq
destruction can easily lead to oops and destroy_workqueue() have
several BUG_ON()s to catch these cases.  Unfortunately, BUG_ON()
doesn't tell much about how the work became pending after the final
flush_workqueue().

This patch adds WQ_DYING which is set before the final flush begins.
If a work is requested to be queued on a dying workqueue,
WARN_ON_ONCE() is triggered and the request is ignored.  This clearly
indicates which caller is trying to queue a work on a dying workqueue
and keeps the system working in most cases.

Locking rule comment is updated such that the 'I' rule includes
modifying the field from destruction path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index cc3456f96c56..362b50d092e2 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ enum {
 /*
  * Structure fields follow one of the following exclusion rules.
  *
- * I: Set during initialization and read-only afterwards.
+ * I: Modifiable by initialization/destruction paths and read-only for
+ *    everyone else.
  *
  * P: Preemption protected.  Disabling preemption is enough and should
  *    only be modified and accessed from the local cpu.
@@ -944,6 +945,9 @@ static void __queue_work(unsigned int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 
 	debug_work_activate(work);
 
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(wq->flags & WQ_DYING))
+		return;
+
 	/* determine gcwq to use */
 	if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND)) {
 		struct global_cwq *last_gcwq;
@@ -2828,6 +2832,7 @@ void destroy_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu;
 
+	wq->flags |= WQ_DYING;
 	flush_workqueue(wq);
 
 	/*