From 4e6045f134784f4b158b3c0f7a282b04bd816887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:39:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: debug flushing deadlocks with lockdep In the following scenario: code path 1: my_function() -> lock(L1); ...; flush_workqueue(); ... code path 2: run_workqueue() -> my_work() -> ...; lock(L1); ... you can get a deadlock when my_work() is queued or running but my_function() has acquired L1 already. This patch adds a pseudo-lock to each workqueue to make lockdep warn about this scenario. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed