* Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> This patch adds a fake lock to each workqueue in order to debug things
> where you have something like
>
> my_function() -> lock(); ...; flush_workqueue(); ...
> vs
> run_workqueue() -> my_work() -> ...; lock(); ...
>
> which can obviously deadlock if my_work is scheduled when my_function()
> is invoked (but hasn't locked yet.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
i'm still impressed by the elegancy of your idea :)
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
btw., small patch format comment: it would be useful (in the future) to
send such combined patches as:
[patch 0/2] general description
[patch 1/2] first patch
[patch 2/2] second patch
Ingo
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