kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue
sri
bskmohan at gmail.com
Thu May 26 08:33:46 EDT 2011
Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
So the BUG_ON means that it is known prior that a could raise in this
codelines.
Correct me if am wrong. In that case, there would a patch to fix this,
guessing.
--Sri
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 16:32, sri <bskmohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:113!
>
> from http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.18/kernel/workqueue.c, lines around
> 113:
> int fastcall queue_work(struct workqueue_struct *wq, struct work_struct
> *work)
> 107{
> 108 int ret = 0, cpu = get_cpu();
> 109
> 110 if (!test_and_set_bit(0, &work->pending)) {
> 111 if (unlikely(is_single_threaded(wq)))
> 112 cpu = singlethread_cpu;
> 113 BUG_ON(!list_empty(&work->entry));
> 114 __queue_work(per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, cpu), work);
> 115 ret = 1;
> 116 }
> 117 put_cpu();
> 118 return ret;
> 119}
>
> So, if I interpret it correctly, that BUG_ON line means that if
> work->entry is not empty or null, then it is a bug.
>
> Not sure what causes that, but it could be simply due to failure of
> "work" initialization (as work_struct) somewhere...
>
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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