Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:50:32 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ftrace, workqueuetrace: Make
	workqueuetracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro
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On 04/21, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 04/21, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >
> > For example,
> >
> > - the user opens the stat file
> > - then the entries are loaded and sorted into memory
> > - one of the workqueues is destroyed

Hmm. And what protects cws when, say, workqueue_stat_show() is called?
Can't we race with probe_workqueue_destruction()->kfree() ?

Oleg.

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