workqueue: Fixes for v7.0-rc6

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- Fix false positive stall reports on weakly ordered architectures where
   the lockless worklist/timestamp check in the watchdog can observe stale
   values due to memory reordering. Recheck under pool->lock to confirm.
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Merge tag 'wq-for-7.0-rc6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

Pull workqueue fix from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix false positive stall reports on weakly ordered architectures
   where the lockless worklist/timestamp check in the watchdog can
   observe stale values due to memory reordering.

   Recheck under pool->lock to confirm.

* tag 'wq-for-7.0-rc6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: Better describe stall check
  workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports

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Linus Torvalds 2026-03-31 14:20:39 -07:00

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