From: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com,
david@fromorbit.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, oleg@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lge.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:46:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170829064637.GC3240@X58A-UD3R> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170823121432.990701317@infradead.org>
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 01:58:47PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The new completion/crossrelease annotations interact unfavourable with
> the extant flush_work()/flush_workqueue() annotations.
>
> The problem is that when a single work class does:
>
> wait_for_completion(&C)
>
> and
>
> complete(&C)
>
> in different executions, we'll build dependencies like:
>
> lock_map_acquire(W)
> complete_acquire(C)
>
> and
>
> lock_map_acquire(W)
> complete_release(C)
>
> which results in the dependency chain: W->C->W, which lockdep thinks
> spells deadlock, even though there is no deadlock potential since
> works are ran concurrently.
>
> One possibility would be to change the work 'lock' to recursive-read,
> but that would mean hitting a lockdep limitation on recursive locks.
> Also, unconditinoally switching to recursive-read here would fail to
> detect the actual deadlock on single-threaded workqueues, which do
> have a problem with this.
>
> For now, forcefully disregard these locks for crossrelease.
Eventually, you pushed this patch to tip tree without any comment.
I don't really understand you.
How does a maintainer choose a very work-around method and avoid
problems rather than fix a root cause? I am very disappointed.
But, I have nothing to do against your will.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-29 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-23 11:58 [PATCH 0/4] workqueue and lockdep stuffs Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-23 11:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: Use TASK_IDLE Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-23 13:31 ` Tejun Heo
2017-08-23 11:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-23 11:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] workqueue/lockdep: Fix flush_work() annotation Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-23 11:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-24 2:18 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-24 14:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-25 1:11 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-29 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-29 14:23 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/lockdep: Untangle xhlock history save/restore from task independence tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-29 16:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation Byungchul Park
2017-08-29 18:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-30 2:09 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-30 7:41 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-30 8:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-30 9:01 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-30 9:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-30 9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-30 9:35 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-30 9:24 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-30 11:25 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-30 12:49 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-31 7:26 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-31 8:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-31 8:15 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-31 8:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-01 2:05 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-01 9:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-01 10:16 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-01 12:09 ` 박병철/선임연구원/SW Platform(연)AOT팀(byungchul.park@lge.com)
2017-09-01 12:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-01 13:51 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-01 16:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-04 1:30 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-04 2:08 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-04 11:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 0:38 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-05 7:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 7:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 8:57 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-05 9:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 10:31 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-05 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 11:24 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-05 10:58 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-05 13:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 23:52 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-06 0:42 ` Boqun Feng
2017-09-06 1:32 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-06 23:59 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-07 0:11 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-06 0:48 ` Byungchul Park
2017-09-05 8:30 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-31 8:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-25 4:39 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-29 6:46 ` Byungchul Park [this message]
2017-08-29 9:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-08-29 16:12 ` Byungchul Park
2017-08-23 13:32 ` [PATCH 0/4] workqueue and lockdep stuffs Tejun Heo
2017-08-23 13:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
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