Grumble, somehow these emails got lost in the crowd. On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 10:24 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * Steven Rostedt | 2013-04-11 14:33:34 [-0400]: > > >diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c > >index e8d8ad0..060e473 100644 > >--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c > >+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c > >@@ -1308,6 +1309,61 @@ static void mce_do_trigger(struct work_struct *work) > > > > static DECLARE_WORK(mce_trigger_work, mce_do_trigger); > > > >+static void __mce_notify_work(void) > >+{ > >+ /* Not more than two messages every minute */ > >+ static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(ratelimit, 60*HZ, 2); > >+ > >+ /* wake processes polling /dev/mcelog */ > >+ wake_up_interruptible(&mce_chrdev_wait); > >+ > >+ /* > >+ * There is no risk of missing notifications because > >+ * work_pending is always cleared before the function is > >+ * executed. > >+ */ > >+ if (mce_helper[0] && !work_pending(&mce_trigger_work)) > >+ schedule_work(&mce_trigger_work); > > Why is here this work_pending() check? You can't enqueue a work item > twice. Yep, that doesn't look needed. Looking at the current code we have this commit: commit 4d899be584d4b4c5d6b49d655176b25cebf6ff1a Author: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Dec 21 17:57:05 2012 -0800 x86/mce: don't use [delayed_]work_pending() There's no need to test whether a (delayed) work item in pending before queueing, flushing or cancelling it. Most uses are unnecessary and quite a few of them are buggy. Remove unnecessary pending tests from x86/mce. Only compile tested. v2: Local var work removed from mce_schedule_work() as suggested by Borislav. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html