The patch titled workqueue: make cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue() work on idle dwork has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is workqueue-make-cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue-work-on-idle-dwork.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: workqueue: make cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue() work on idle dwork From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(dwork) will hang forever if dwork was not scheduled, because in that case cancel_delayed_work()->del_timer_sync() never returns true. I don't know if there are any callers which may have problems, but this is not so convenient, and the fix is very simple. Q: looks like we don't need "struct workqueue_struct *wq" parameter. If the timer was aborted successfully, get_wq_data() == wq. Is it worth to add the new function? Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/workqueue.c~workqueue-make-cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue-work-on-idle-dwork kernel/workqueue.c --- a/kernel/workqueue.c~workqueue-make-cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue-work-on-idle-dwork +++ a/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -566,6 +566,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_work_keventd); void cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq, struct delayed_work *dwork) { + /* Was it ever queued ? */ + if (!get_wq_data(&dwork->work)) + return; + while (!cancel_delayed_work(dwork)) flush_workqueue(wq); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are git-dvb.patch git-block.patch doc-atomic_add_unless-doesnt-imply-mb-on-failure.patch vt-refactor-console-sak-processing.patch procfs-fix-race-between-proc_readdir-and-remove_proc_entry.patch procfs-fix-race-between-proc_readdir-and-remove_proc_entry-fix.patch kill_pid_info-kill-acquired_tasklist_lock.patch clone-flag-clone_parent_tidptr-leaves-invalid-results-in-memory.patch _proc_do_string-fix-short-reads.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid-fix.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid-update.patch tty-make-__proc_set_tty-static.patch tty-clarify-disassociate_ctty.patch tty-fix-the-locking-for-signal-session-in-disassociate_ctty.patch signal-use-kill_pgrp-not-kill_pg-in-the-sunos-compatibility-code.patch signal-rewrite-kill_something_info-so-it-uses-newer-helpers.patch pid-make-session_of_pgrp-use-struct-pid-instead-of-pid_t.patch pid-use-struct-pid-for-talking-about-process-groups-in-exitc.patch pid-replace-is_orphaned_pgrp-with-is_current_pgrp_orphaned.patch tty-update-the-tty-layer-to-work-with-struct-pid.patch pid-replace-do-while_each_task_pid-with-do-while_each_pid_task.patch pid-remove-now-unused-do_each_task_pid-and-while_each_task_pid.patch pid-remove-the-now-unused-kill_pg-kill_pg_info-and-__kill_pg_info.patch posix-timers-rcu-optimization-for-clock_gettime.patch posix-timers-rcu-optimization-for-clock_gettime-fix.patch reimplement-flush_workqueue.patch implement-flush_work.patch implement-flush_work-sanity.patch implement-flush_work_keventd.patch flush_workqueue-use-preempt_disable-to-hold-off-cpu-hotplug.patch flush_cpu_workqueue-dont-flush-an-empty-worklist.patch aio-use-flush_work.patch kblockd-use-flush_work.patch relayfs-use-flush_keventd_work.patch tg3-use-flush_keventd_work.patch e1000-use-flush_keventd_work.patch libata-use-flush_work.patch phy-use-flush_work.patch call-cpu_chain-with-cpu_down_failed-if-cpu_down_prepare-failed.patch slab-use-cpu_lock_.patch workqueue-fix-freezeable-workqueues-implementation.patch workqueue-fix-flush_workqueue-vs-cpu_dead-race.patch workqueue-dont-clear-cwq-thread-until-it-exits.patch workqueue-dont-migrate-pending-works-from-the-dead-cpu.patch workqueue-kill-run_scheduled_work.patch workqueue-dont-save-interrupts-in-run_workqueue.patch workqueue-dont-save-interrupts-in-run_workqueue-update.patch workqueue-make-cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue-work-on-idle-dwork.patch workqueue-introduce-cpu_singlethread_map.patch workqueue-introduce-workqueue_struct-singlethread.patch workqueue-make-init_workqueues-__init.patch slab-shutdown-cache_reaper-when-cpu-goes-down.patch rework-compat_sys_io_submit.patch fix-aioh-includes.patch fix-access_ok-checks.patch make-good_sigevent-non-static.patch make-good_sigevent-non-static-fix.patch make-__sigqueue_free-and.patch aio-completion-signal-notification.patch aio-completion-signal-notification-fix.patch aio-completion-signal-notification-fixes-and-cleanups.patch aio-completion-signal-notification-small-cleanup.patch add-listio-syscall-support.patch hotplug-allow-modules-to-use-the-cpu-hotplug-notifiers.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html