On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 10:12 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:46:54PM -0400, Andy Walls wrote: > > Hmmm, I didn't know about the constraint about 'known to be alive' in > > the other email I just sent. > > > > That might make calling flush_kthread_work() hard for a user to use, if > > the user lets the work get freed by another thread executing the work. > > Umm... flushing a freed work item doesn't make any sense at all. The > pointer itself loses the ability to identify anything. What if it > gets recycled to another work item which happens to depend on the > flusher to make forward progress? You now have a circular dependency > through a recycled memory area. Good luck hunting that down. > > For pretty much any API, allowing dangling pointers as argument is > insane. If you want to flush self-freeing work items, flush the > kthread_worker. That's how it is with workqueue and how it should be > with kthread_worker too.
Hi, Ah. My problem was that I mentally assigned the wrong rationale for why you reworked flush_kthread_work(). Thank you for your patience and explanations. Sorry for the noise. For patch 2/2: Reviewed-by: Andy Walls <awa...@md.metrocast.net> Regards, Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
