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SubjectRe: Problem with freezable workqueues
Hi!

> > I'm afraid this is racy. We can't touch *cwq, it may be freed. Suppose
> > that another thread does destroy_workqueue(), and we thaw that thread
> > before cwq->thread.
>
> Okay, in that case I'd suggest removing create_freezeable_workqueue() and
> make all workqueues nonfreezable once again for 2.6.21 (as far as I know, only
> the two XFS workqueues are affected).
>
> Pavel, would that be acceptable?

Not sure... I really dislike XFS running while we are doing
swsusp. I'd like to move in direction of freezeable workqueues in the
future.

Anyway, if it gets us out of current trouble... yes I guess we can do
it.
Pavel
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