Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Feb 10 2016 - 14:07:01 EST


On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> * Officially break local execution guarantee of unbound work items and
> add a debug feature to flush out usages which depend on it.

Btw, should we try to do this for timers too? A debug option to make a
regular "add_timer()" explicitly schedule things on another CPU, to
figure out the cases that really should use "add_timer_on()"?

Added Thomas to the cc.

Linus