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Commit b4606f21 authored by Ian Campbell's avatar Ian Campbell Committed by Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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xen: explicitly create/destroy stop_machine workqueues outside suspend/resume region.



I have observed cases where the implicit stop_machine_destroy() done by
stop_machine() hangs while destroying the workqueues, specifically in
kthread_stop(). This seems to be because timer ticks are not restarted
until after stop_machine() returns.

Fortunately stop_machine provides a facility to pre-create/post-destroy
the workqueues so use this to ensure that workqueues are only destroyed
after everything is really up and running again.

I only actually observed this failure with 2.6.30. It seems that newer
kernels are somehow more robust against doing kthread_stop() without timer
interrupts (I tried some backports of some likely looking candidates but
did not track down the commit which added this robustness). However this
change seems like a reasonable belt&braces thing to do.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
parent 65f63384
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