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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	"Zhang, Qiang" <Qiang.Zhang@windriver.com>,
	Markus Elfring <markus.elfring@web.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 回复: [PATCH v5] workqueue: Remove unnecessary kfree() call in rcu_free_wq()
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 10:03:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200528140357.GL83516@mtj.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJhGHyBUkMZ=cV+Qf-5+PMAFqgebbRLc46OZSSUSgoRROpUk2A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:27:03PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> wq owns the ultimate or permanent references to itself by
> owning references to wq->numa_pwq_tbl[node], wq->dfl_pwq.
> The pwq's references keep the pwq in wq->pwqs.

Yeah, regardless of who puts a wq the last time, the base reference is put
by destroy_workqueue() and thus it's guaranteed that a wq can't be rcu freed
without going through destroy_workqueue(). lol I'm undoing the revert.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-28 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-27  7:57 [PATCH v5] workqueue: Remove unnecessary kfree() call in rcu_free_wq() qiang.zhang
2020-05-27  8:20 ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]   ` <DM6PR11MB32573F3884A864ECD586235EFF8E0@DM6PR11MB3257.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
2020-05-28  1:44     ` 回复: " Zhang, Qiang
2020-05-28  9:57       ` Dan Carpenter
2020-05-28 10:38         ` Tejun Heo
2020-05-28 11:00           ` [v5] " Markus Elfring
2020-05-28 14:40             ` Markus Elfring
2020-05-28 12:08         ` 回复: [PATCH v5] " Lai Jiangshan
2020-05-28 12:25           ` Dan Carpenter
2020-05-28 13:27             ` Lai Jiangshan
2020-05-28 14:03               ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2020-05-28 14:45                 ` [v5] " Markus Elfring
2020-05-28 14:06               ` 回复: [PATCH v5] " Dan Carpenter
2020-05-28 15:25             ` [v5] " Markus Elfring
2020-05-28 15:02           ` Markus Elfring
2020-05-28 15:02           ` Markus Elfring
2020-05-27 13:52 ` [PATCH v5] " Tejun Heo

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