The patch titled make-cancel_rearming_delayed_work-reliable fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is make-cancel_rearming_delayed_work-reliable-fix.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: make-cancel_rearming_delayed_work-reliable fix From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Add cpu-relax() into spinloops, and a comments update. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/workqueue.c~make-cancel_rearming_delayed_work-reliable-fix kernel/workqueue.c --- a/kernel/workqueue.c~make-cancel_rearming_delayed_work-reliable-fix +++ a/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -477,13 +477,16 @@ static void wait_on_work(struct work_str * case it only guarantees that work->func() has completed on the last queued * workqueue. * + * cancel_work_sync(&delayed_work->work) should be used only if ->timer is not + * pending, otherwise it goes into a busy-wait loop until the timer expires. + * * The caller must ensure that workqueue_struct on which this work was last * queued can't be destroyed before this function returns. */ void cancel_work_sync(struct work_struct *work) { while (!try_to_grab_pending(work)) - ; + cpu_relax(); wait_on_work(work); work_clear_pending(work); } @@ -500,7 +503,7 @@ void cancel_rearming_delayed_work(struct { while (!del_timer(&dwork->timer) && !try_to_grab_pending(&dwork->work)) - ; 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