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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3
    On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
    > >
    > > * Officially break local execution guarantee of unbound work items and
    > > add a debug feature to flush out usages which depend on it.
    >
    > Btw, should we try to do this for timers too? A debug option to make a
    > regular "add_timer()" explicitly schedule things on another CPU, to
    > figure out the cases that really should use "add_timer_on()"?

    That certainly makes sense. So we should use a common debug option to force
    the 'schedule remote' machinery for all interesting subsystems instead of
    creating an extra option for each.

    Thanks,

    tglx

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