Re: [PATCH -mm] workqueue: debug possible endless loop in cancel_rearming_delayed_work

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Apr 19 2007 - 03:33:08 EST



* Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxx> wrote:

> + int i = 1000;
>
> - while (!cancel_delayed_work(dwork))
> + while (!cancel_delayed_work(dwork)) {
> flush_workqueue(wq);
> + BUG_ON(!i--);
> + }

if then make it a WARN_ON(). But ... dont we have the softlockup
detector for such cases? Does CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y give you enough
information?

Ingo
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