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There is an old problem with io-wq cancellation where requests should be killed and are in io-wq but are not discoverable, e.g. in @next_hashed or @linked vars of io_worker_handle_work(). It adds some unreliability to individual request canellation, but also may potentially get __io_uring_cancel() stuck. For instance: 1) An __io_uring_cancel()'s cancellation round have not found any request but there are some as desribed. 2) __io_uring_cancel() goes to sleep 3) Then workers wake up and try to execute those hidden requests that happen to be unbound. As we already cancel all requests of io-wq there, set IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT in advance, so preventing 3) from executing unbound requests. The workers will initially break looping because of getting a signal as they are threads of the dying/exec()'ing user task. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/abfcf8c54cb9e8f7bfbad7e9a0cc5433cc70bdc2.1621781238.git.asml.silence@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.