On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 17:31 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 15:05 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > As documented in a comment in start_flush_work(), calling flush_work()
> > from a multi-threaded workqueue is safe if that workqueue is not
> > equipped with a rescuer. Avoid that flush_work() calls from inside a
> > work item executing on such a queue trigger a lockdep complaint.
So actually, come to think of it, certainly this will cause a false
negative in this case?
mutex_lock(A);
flush_work(W);
worker_W_function()
{
mutex_lock(A);
}
right?
johannes
