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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 12:52:52 +0800
From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
To: Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: May the worker function free its struct_work (plus container)?
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:47:23AM +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> may the worker function kfree() it's own work data structure?

Actually, workqueue has no restriction on this kind of operation.
But if you must be careful with the caller in case it will refer
the freed struct.

Thanks,
Yong