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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ego@in.ibm.com, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	ltt-dev@shafik.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com,
	Douglas Niehaus <niehaus@eecs.ku.edu>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	kiran@scalex86.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com, vatsa@in.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
	davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Relay CPU Hotplug support
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:44:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061222024458.322adffd.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061222103724.GA29348@in.ibm.com>

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:07:24 +0530
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> While we are at this per-subsystem cpuhotplug "locking", here's a
> proposal that might put an end to the workqueue deadlock woes.

Oleg is working on some patches which will permit us to cancel or wait upon
a particular work_struct, rather than upon all pending work_structs.  

This will fix the problem where we accidentlly wait upon some unrelated
work_struct which takes a lock which is related to one which we already
hold.

I hope.  It'll be a bit tricky to implement: if some foreign work_struct is
running right now, we cannot wait upon it - we must non-blockingly dequeue
the work_struct which we want to kill before it gets to run.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-22 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-21  0:31 Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-12-21  1:13 ` Tom Zanussi
2006-12-21  3:22   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-12-21  7:23 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-21  7:04   ` Tom Zanussi
2006-12-22 10:37   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2006-12-22 10:44     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-12-22 16:20       ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-12-22 16:42         ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-12-22 20:01       ` Gautham R Shenoy

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