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In flush_work(), we need to create a lockdep dependency so that
the following scenario is appropriately tagged as a problem:
work_function()
{
mutex_lock(&mutex);
...
}
other_function()
{
mutex_lock(&mutex);
flush_work(&work); // or cancel_work_sync(&work);
}
This is a problem since the work might be running and be blocked
on trying to acquire the mutex.
Similarly, in flush_workqueue().
These were removed after cross-release partially caught these
problems, but now cross-release was reverted anyway. IMHO the
removal was erroneous anyway though, since lockdep should be
able to catch potential problems, not just actual ones, and
cross-release would only have caught the problem when actually
invoking wait_for_completion().
Fixes: fd1a5b04df ("workqueue: Remove now redundant lock acquisitions wrt. workqueue flushes")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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