Merge branch 'for-4.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue fix from Tejun Heo:
"So, it turns out we had a silly bug in the most fundamental part of
workqueue for a very long time. AFAICS, this dates back to pre-git
era and has quite likely been there from the time workqueue was first
introduced.
A work item uses its PENDING bit to synchronize multiple queuers.
Anyone who wins the PENDING bit owns the pending state of the work
item. Whether a queuer wins or loses the race, one thing should be
guaranteed - there will soon be at least one execution of the work
item - where "after" means that the execution instance would be able
to see all the changes that the queuer has made prior to the queueing
attempt.
Unfortunately, we were missing a smp_mb() after clearing PENDING for
execution, so nothing guaranteed visibility of the changes that a
queueing loser has made, which manifested as a reproducible blk-mq
stall.
Lots of kudos to Roman for debugging the problem. The patch for
-stable is the minimal one. For v3.7, Peter is working on a patch to
make the code path slightly more efficient and less fragile"
* 'for-4.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix ghost PENDING flag while doing MQ IO
