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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/22] kthread: Detect when a kthread work is used by
 more workers
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:27:03 -0500
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Hello,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:25:12PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> @@ -610,6 +625,12 @@ repeat:
>  	if (work) {
>  		__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>  		work->func(work);
> +
> +		spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
> +		/* Allow to queue the work into another worker */
> +		if (!kthread_work_pending(work))
> +			work->worker = NULL;
> +		spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);

Doesn't this mean that the work item can't be freed from its callback?
That pattern tends to happen regularly.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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