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SubjectRe: WARN_ON_ONCE() in process_one_work()?
Hello, Paul.

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 11:38:07AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 09:57:47AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am hitting this WARN_ON_ONCE() in process_one_work() and am wondering
> > what I did wrong to make this happen:
>
> Oh, wait... Rescuer, it says. Might this be due to the fact that RCU's
> expedited grace periods block within a workqueue handler? Might this
> in turn run the system out of workqueue kthreads? If this is the likely
> cause, my approach would be to rework the expected-grace-period workqueue
> handler to return when waiting for the grace period to complete, and to
> replace the current wakeup with a schedule_work() or something similar.

That should be completely fine. It could just be that the rescuer
path has a bug around CPU hotplug handling. Can you please confirm
either way on the cpuset usage?

Thanks.

--
tejun

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