Re: [PATCH UPDATED] workqueue: relax lockdep annotation onflush_work()

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:25:46PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, January 03, 2011, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:14:45PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > Hmmm?  The code applies the most strict contraints.  If the workqueue
> > > > has a rescuer, flushing another work from the workqueue will always
> > > > trigger lockdep warning.  The rule is relaxed only for workqueues
> > > > which aren't used for memory reclaiming && support parallel execution.
> > > 
> > > Ah, ok. I read it like: if the current thread is a rescue thread.
> > 
> > Ah, I see.  Rafael, can you please verify the updated version is okay
> > too (it should be but just in case)?
> 
> It still appears to be fine.

Applied to wq#fixes-2.6.38 with Tested-by and stable cc added.

Thank you.

-- 
tejun
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