Re: [PATCH 1/3] kernel/workqueue: Remove lockdep annotation from __flush_work()

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 15:05 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> As documented in a comment in start_flush_work(), calling flush_work()
> from a multi-threaded workqueue is safe if that workqueue is not
> equipped with a rescuer. Avoid that flush_work() calls from inside a
> work item executing on such a queue trigger a lockdep complaint.

So ... not sure I understand, do you happen to have an example (at least
conceptually) that shows the problem?

Something like

workqueue WQ, works W1, W2

W1 running on WQ -> flush_work(W2) also running on WQ?

I'm willing to believe that this is a corner case I missed with the
annotations since the rescuer things are tricky, but I don't think
removing them is the right thing to do.

> Remove
> the lockdep annotation from __flush_work() because start_flush_work()
> already has such an annotation.

This part at least isn't true, there's no annotation on the work
*struct*, only one on the work *queue*.

johannes