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Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
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Add a test_kfree_rcu_wq_destroy test to verify a kmem_cache_destroy() from a workqueue context. The problem is that, before destroying any cache the kvfree_rcu_barrier() is invoked to guarantee that in-flight freed objects are flushed. The _barrier() function queues and flushes its own internal workers which might conflict with a workqueue type a kmem-cache gets destroyed from. One example is when a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events which leads to a kernel splat. See the check_flush_dependency() in the workqueue.c file. If this test does not emits any kernel warning, it is passed. Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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