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* Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote: > This patch adds a fake lock to each workqueue in order to debug things > where you have something like > > my_function() -> lock(); ...; flush_workqueue(); ... > vs > run_workqueue() -> my_work() -> ...; lock(); ... > > which can obviously deadlock if my_work is scheduled when my_function() > is invoked (but hasn't locked yet.) > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> i'm still impressed by the elegancy of your idea :) Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> btw., small patch format comment: it would be useful (in the future) to send such combined patches as: [patch 0/2] general description [patch 1/2] first patch [patch 2/2] second patch Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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