Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S942529AbcJSOeG (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:34:06 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:41528 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S942172AbcJSOdt (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:33:49 -0400 From: Petr Mladek To: Doug Ledford , Sean Hefty Cc: Dennis Dalessandro , Hal Rosenstock , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Petr Mladek Subject: [PATCH 0/2] IB/rdmavt: cq ktrhead worker fix and API update Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:07:18 +0200 Message-Id: <1476878840-14548-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.5.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 633 Lines: 19 The kthread worker API has been improved in 4.9-rc1. The 2nd patch uses the new functions and simplifies the kthread worker creation and destroying. I have found a possible race when working on the API conversion. A proposed fix is in the 1st patch. Both changes are compile tested only. I did not find an easy way how to test them at runtime. Petr Mladek (2): IB/rdmavt: Avoid queuing work into a destroyed cq kthread worker IB/rdmavt: Handle the kthread worker using the new API drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) -- 1.8.5.6