The patch titled workqueues: lockdep annotations for flush_work() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is workqueues-lockdep-annotations-for-flush_work.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** 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 The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: workqueues: lockdep annotations for flush_work() From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Add lockdep annotations to flush_work() and update the comment. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxx> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/workqueue.c~workqueues-lockdep-annotations-for-flush_work kernel/workqueue.c --- a/kernel/workqueue.c~workqueues-lockdep-annotations-for-flush_work +++ a/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_workqueue); * flush_work - block until a work_struct's callback has terminated * @work: the work which is to be flushed * + * Returns false if @work has already terminated. + * * It is expected that, prior to calling flush_work(), the caller has * arranged for the work to not be requeued, otherwise it doesn't make * sense to use this function. @@ -418,6 +420,9 @@ int flush_work(struct work_struct *work) if (!cwq) return 0; + lock_acquire(&cwq->wq->lockdep_map, 0, 0, 0, 2, _THIS_IP_); + lock_release(&cwq->wq->lockdep_map, 1, _THIS_IP_); + prev = NULL; spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock); if (!list_empty(&work->entry)) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are get_user_pages-fix-possible-page-leak-on-oom.patch linux-next.patch migrate_timers-add-comment-use-spinlock_irq.patch posix-timers-timer_delete-remove-the-bogus-it_process-=-null-check.patch posix-timers-release_posix_timer-kill-the-bogus-put_task_struct-it_process.patch signals-collect_signal-remove-the-unneeded-sigismember-check.patch signals-collect_signal-simplify-the-still_pending-logic.patch signals-change-collect_signal-to-return-void.patch __exit_signal-dont-take-rcu-lock.patch signals-dequeue_signal-dont-check-signal_group_exit-when-setting-signal_stop_dequeued.patch signals-do_signal_stop-kill-the-signal_unkillable-check.patch coredump-zap_threads-comments-use-while_each_thread.patch signals-make-siginfo_t-si_utime-si_sstime-report-times-in-user_hz-not-hz.patch kernel-signalc-change-vars-pid-and-tgid-types-to-pid_t.patch include-asm-ptraceh-userspace-headers-cleanup.patch ptrace-give-more-respect-to-sigkill.patch ptrace-simplify-ptrace_stop-sigkill_pending-path.patch introduce-pf_kthread-flag.patch kill-pf_borrowed_mm-in-favour-of-pf_kthread.patch coredump-zap_threads-must-skip-kernel-threads.patch coredump-elf_core_dump-skip-kernel-threads.patch coredump-turn-mm-core_startup_done-into-the-pointer-to-struct-core_state.patch coredump-move-mm-core_waiters-into-struct-core_state.patch coredump-simplify-core_state-nr_threads-calculation.patch coredump-turn-core_state-nr_threads-into-atomic_t.patch workqueues-insert_work-use-list_head-instead-of-int-tail.patch workqueues-implement-flush_work.patch workqueues-schedule_on_each_cpu-use-flush_work.patch workqueues-make-get_online_cpus-useable-for-work-func.patch workqueues-make-get_online_cpus-useable-for-work-func-fix.patch s390-topology-dont-use-kthread-for-arch_reinit_sched_domains.patch workqueues-lockdep-annotations-for-flush_work.patch pidns-remove-now-unused-kill_proc-function.patch pidns-remove-now-unused-find_pid-function.patch pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time.patch distinct-tgid-tid-i-o-statistics.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