Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 2/4] Revert changes to workqueue.c

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 02/17, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
>
> Yeah, thats what I thought. We will try to split it to the extent
> possible in the next iteration.

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.

I'm afraid it won't be so easy to solve all locking/racing problems. Will
wait for the patch :)

Oleg.

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