On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:00:05PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > PREPARE_[DELAYED_]WORK() are being phased out. They have few users > > and a nasty surprise in terms of reentrancy guarantee as workqueue > > considers work items to be different if they don't have the same work > > function. > > Why so? Isn't the work item address sufficient to distinguish them?
Because we ended up introducing deadlocks through work items which are freed and then recycled. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/
