From: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
To: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Add clarifying comment why schedule_work is used
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:35:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446809733-31134-1-git-send-email-johan.hedberg@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@intel.com>
It's not obvious why schedule_work is used instead of queue_work. Add
a comment explaining why.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@intel.com>
---
net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
index 85b82f7adbd2..fd6120a41138 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
@@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ static void hci_connect_le_scan_remove(struct hci_conn *conn)
hci_dev_hold(conn->hdev);
hci_conn_get(conn);
+ /* Even though we hold a reference to the hdev, many other
+ * things might get cleaned up meanwhile, including the hdev's
+ * own workqueue, so we can't use that for scheduling.
+ */
schedule_work(&conn->le_scan_cleanup);
}
--
2.5.0
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2015-11-06 11:35 Johan Hedberg [this message]
2015-11-06 11:38 ` [PATCH] Bluetooth: Add clarifying comment why schedule_work is used Marcel Holtmann
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