On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:26:11PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> When a CPU is finally put down in either CPU_UP_CANCELLED or
> CPU_POST_DEAD, cpu_stop_cpu_callback() signals immediate completion on
> all cpu_stop_works still queued on the dead CPU; unfortunately, this
> code is buggy in that it doesn't remove the canceled work items off
> the stopper->works leaving it corrupted, which will trigger BUG_ON()
> during CPU_UP_PREPARE if the CPU is brought back online.
> 
> This bug isn't easily triggered because CPU_DOWN has to race against
> cpu_stop calls and most, if not all, cpu stop users pin target CPUs.
> 
> Fix it by popping each work item off stopper->works.
> 
> Thanks Tejun for sharing commit message, again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhi...@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>

Andrew, this one too.

Thank you!

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tejun
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