On 04/25, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:20:38PM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > 2 cents more...
> ... 
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:55:37PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > + do {
> > > +         retry = 1;
> 
> Of course this'll be shorter:
> 
>               retry = 0;

No, this would be wrong. Note the comment about CPU-hotplug below,
we should retry if cwq was changed.

> > > +         spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock);
> > > +         /* CPU_DEAD in progress may change cwq */
> > > +         if (likely(cwq == get_wq_data(work))) {
> > > +                 list_del_init(&work->entry);
> > > +                 __set_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING, work_data_bits(work));
> > > +                 retry = try_to_del_timer_sync(&dwork->timer) < 0;
> > > +         }
> > > +         spin_unlock_irq(&cwq->lock);
> > > + } while (unlikely(retry));

>  1. If delayed_work_timer_fn of this work is fired and is waiting
>  on the above spin_lock then, after above spin_unlock, the work
>  will be queued.

No, in that case try_to_del_timer_sync() returns -1.

>                   Probably this is also possible without timer i.e.
>  with queue_work.

Yes, thanks. While adding cpu-hotplug check I forgot to add ->current_work
check, which is needed to actually implement this

        > > Note that cancel_rearming_delayed_work() now can handle the works
        > > which re-arm itself via queue_work(), not only queue_delayed_work().

part. I'll resend after fix.

>  2. If this function is fired after setting _PENDING flag in
>  queue_delayed_work_on, but before add_timer, this
>  try_to_del_timer_sync loop would miss this, too.

same as above, thanks.

Oleg.

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