workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively
If the @fn call work_on_cpu() again, the lockdep will complain:
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> 3.11.0-rc1-lockdep-fix-a #6 Not tainted
> ---------------------------------------------
> kworker/0:1/142 is trying to acquire lock:
> ((&wfc.work)){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81077100>] flush_work+0x0/0xb0
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> ((&wfc.work)){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81075dd9>] process_one_work+0x169/0x610
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
> Possible unsafe locking scenario:
>
> CPU0
> ----
> lock((&wfc.work));
> lock((&wfc.work));
>
> *** DEADLOCK ***
It is false-positive lockdep report. In this sutiation,
the two "wfc"s of the two work_on_cpu() are different,
they are both on stack. flush_work() can't be deadlock.
To fix this, we need to avoid the lockdep checking in this case,
thus we instroduce a internal __flush_work() which skip the lockdep.
tj: Minor comment adjustment.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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