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workqueues: add comments to __create_workqueue_key()
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Dmitry Adamushko pointed out that the error handling in
__create_workqueue_key() is not clear, add the comment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 30, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -830,10 +830,21 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__create_workqueue_key(const char *name,
start_workqueue_thread(cwq, -1);
} else {
cpu_maps_update_begin();
/*
* We must place this wq on list even if the code below fails.
* cpu_down(cpu) can remove cpu from cpu_populated_map before
* destroy_workqueue() takes the lock, in that case we leak
* cwq[cpu]->thread.
*/
spin_lock(&workqueue_lock);
list_add(&wq->list, &workqueues);
spin_unlock(&workqueue_lock);

/*
* We must initialize cwqs for each possible cpu even if we
* are going to call destroy_workqueue() finally. Otherwise
* cpu_up() can hit the uninitialized cwq once we drop the
* lock.
*/
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
cwq = init_cpu_workqueue(wq, cpu);
if (err || !cpu_online(cpu))
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