On 02/20, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:59:28AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Before you begin. You are doing CPU_DOWN_PREPARE after freeze_processes(). > > Not good. This makes impossible to do flush_workueue() at CPU_DOWN_PREPARE > > stage, we have callers. > > We have few solutions to deal with this: > > a. Mark such workqueues not freezable for hotplug > b. If above is not possible, don't call flush_workqueue in DOWN_PREPARE > c. If above is not possible, send DOWN_PREPARE before freeze_processes() > > I would prefer a solution in the above order listed. > > Which caller are you referring to here? Maybe we can decide on the > option after we see the users of flush_workqueue() in DOWN_PREPARE.
mm/slab.c:cpuup_callback() > > I'm afraid it won't be so easy to solve all locking/racing problems. Will > > wait for the patch :) > > I dont see problems for workqueue.c even if we follow option c. Do you > see any? I don't right now... Oh, I already forgot everything :) I'll try to recall when I see the patch. Oleg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/