Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] Remove CPU_DEAD/CPU_UP_CANCELLED handling from workqueue.c

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 10/24, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 24 October 2007 15:37:16 Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> > @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static void start_workqueue_thread(struc
> >
> >  	if (p != NULL) {
> >  		if (cpu >= 0)
> > -			kthread_bind(p, cpu);
> > +			set_cpus_allowed(p, cpumask_of_cpu(cpu));
> >  		wake_up_process(p);
> >  	}
> 
> Hi Gautham!
> 
> 	This works, although the change is unnecessary.

kthread_bind() changes ->cpu/->cpus_allowed without any locks.

Currently this is possible because nobody can wakeup the new thread
after wait_task_inactive() succeeds. With this patch this is not true
any longer, cwq->thread can sleep, for example, on cwq->more_work.

Oleg.

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