Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2014 12:29:08 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: workqueue: WARN at at kernel/workqueue.c:2176 |
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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 05:56:10PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > On 05/16/2014 05:35 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:50:42AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > >> After debugging, I found the hotlug-in cpu is atctive but !online in this case. > >> the problem was introduced by 5fbd036b. > >> Some code assumes that any cpu in cpu_active_mask is also online, but 5fbd036b breaks > >> this assumption, so the corresponding code with this assumption should be changed too. > > > > Good find, and yes it does that. > > > >> The following patch is just a workaround. After it is applied, the above WARNING > >> is gone, but I can't hit the wq problem that you found. > > > > Seeing how the entirety of hotplug is basically duct tape and twigs, the > > below isn't that bad. > > I think we need to find a more grace solution...
A complete rewrite of the hotplug mess, until that time this is fine.
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