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    make cancel_rearming_delayed_work() reliable · 6e84d644
    Oleg Nesterov authored
    Thanks to Jarek Poplawski for the ideas and for spotting the bug in the
    initial draft patch.
    
    cancel_rearming_delayed_work() currently has many limitations, because it
    requires that dwork always re-arms itself via queue_delayed_work().  So it
    hangs forever if dwork doesn't do this, or cancel_rearming_delayed_work/
    cancel_delayed_work was already called.  It uses flush_workqueue() in a
    loop, so it can't be used if workqueue was freezed, and it is potentially
    live- lockable on busy system if delay is small.
    
    With this patch cancel_rearming_delayed_work() doesn't make any assumptions
    about dwork, it can re-arm itself via queue_delayed_work(), or
    queue_work(), or do nothing.
    
    As a "side effect", cancel_work_sync() was changed to handle re-arming works
    as well.
    
    Disadvantages:
    
    	- this patch adds wmb() to insert_work().
    
    	- slowdowns the fast path (when del_timer() succeeds on entry) of
    	  cancel_rearming_delayed_work(), because wait_on_work() is called
    	  unconditionally. In that case, compared to the old version, we are
    	  doing "unneeded" lock/unlock for each online CPU.
    
    	  On the other hand, this means we don't need to use cancel_work_sync()
    	  after cancel_rearming_delayed_work().
    
    	- complicates the code (.text grows by 130 bytes).
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix speling]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
    Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
    Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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