If a workqueue is flushed with flush_work() lockdep checking can
be circumvented. For example:
static DEFINE_MUTEX(mutex);
static void my_work(struct work_struct *w)
{
mutex_lock(&mutex);
mutex_unlock(&mutex);
}
static DECLARE_WORK(work, my_work);
static int __init start_test_module(void)
{
schedule_work(&work);
return 0;
}
module_init(start_test_module);
static void __exit stop_test_module(void)
{
mutex_lock(&mutex);
flush_work(&work);
mutex_unlock(&mutex);
}
module_exit(stop_test_module);
would not always print a warning when flush_work() was called.
In this trivial example nothing could go wrong since we are
guaranteed module_init() and module_exit() don't run concurrently,
but if the work item is schedule asynchronously we could have a
scenario where the work item is running just at the time flush_work()
is called resulting in a classic ABBA locking problem.
Add a lockdep hint by acquiring and releasing the work item
lockdep_map in flush_work() so that we always catch this
potential deadlock scenario.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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