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SubjectRe: workqueue code needing preemption disabled
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On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:43 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:

> Making gcwq locks disable preemption would be much safer / easier, but
> if that's not desirable, anything touching gcwq->idle_list would be a
> good place to start - worker_enter_idle() and worker_leave_idle().
> Hmmm... ignoring CPU hotplug, I think those two might just do it.
> Give it a try? How reproducible is the problem?

Not very :-( I triggered it twice on a 40 CPU box. It can go
approximately 1 month before it triggers. And the box we are testing on
is currently a loaner, and we have it on extension right now. Which
means we wont have it much longer.

But perhaps that's the place to fix things.

Thanks,

-- Steve




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