Re: [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy

Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07T18:02:50Z

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> umm.. Putting a work_struct* into struct cpu_workqueue_struct and then
> doing appropriate things with cpu_workqueue_struct.lock might work.

Yeah, that looks sane. We can't hide anything in "struct work", because we
can't trust it any more once it's been dispatched, but adding a pointer to
the cpu_workqueue_struct that is only used to compare against another
pointer sounds fine.

Linus