Hello, On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 04:39:20PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > +/* > + * Test whether @work is being queued from another work > + * executing on the same kthread. > + */ > +static bool is_chained_work(struct kthread_worker *worker) > +{ > + struct kthread_worker *current_worker; > + > + current_worker = current_kthread_worker(); > + /* > + * Return %true if I'm a kthread worker executing a work item on > + * the given @worker. > + */ > + return current_worker && current_worker == worker; > +} I'm not sure full-on chained work detection is necessary here. kthread worker's usages tend to be significantly simpler and draining is only gonna be used for destruction. > +void drain_kthread_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker) > +{ > + int flush_cnt = 0; > + > + spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock); > + worker->nr_drainers++; > + > + while (!list_empty(&worker->work_list)) { > + /* > + * Unlock, so we could move forward. Note that queuing > + * is limited by @nr_drainers > 0. > + */ > + spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock); > + > + flush_kthread_worker(worker); > + > + if (++flush_cnt == 10 || > + (flush_cnt % 100 == 0 && flush_cnt <= 1000)) > + pr_warn("kthread worker %s: drain_kthread_worker() isn't complete after %u tries\n", > + worker->task->comm, flush_cnt); > + > + spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock); > + } I'd just do something like WARN_ONCE(flush_cnt++ > 10, "kthread worker: ..."). Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>