Re: pm-hibernate : possible circular locking dependency detected

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:47 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 16:35:53 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:56 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > Looks like this will be fixed by Andrew's work-on-cpu-in-own-thread
> > > patch which I just put out the pull request for.
> > 
> > Would it make sense to teach it about a short-circuit like:
> > 
> > work_on_cpu() {
> > 
> >   if (cpumask_weight(current->cpus_allowed) == 1 && 
> >       smp_processor_id() == cpu)
> >     return do_work_right_here();
> 
> Does that happen much?  I guess put a counter in and see?

Ego spotted the case where cpufreq calls it from an cpu-affine
workqueue, it seems to me in that case its desirable to have the
short-cut, and currently that's needed for correctness too as it will
generate this circular lock thingy.

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