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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] workqueue: Remove the warning in wq_worker_sleeping()
Hi Sebastian,

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:29:59AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> v1…v2: - Drop the warning instead of using cmpxchg_local().
> Tglx pointed out that wq_worker_sleeping() is already invoked
> with disabled preemption so the race described can not happen.

I guess you mean this race:

> However, if the interrupt occurs in wq_worker_sleeping() between reading and
> setting `sleeping' i.e.
>
> | if (WARN_ON_ONCE(worker->sleeping))
> | return;
> *interrupt*
> | worker->sleeping = 1;
>
> then pool->nr_running will be decremented twice in wq_worker_sleeping()
> but it will be incremented only once in wq_worker_running().

Why would preemption prevent it? Interrupts are still enabled.

What am I missing? :-)

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