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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: Vicente Feito <vicente.feito@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: workqueue - process context
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:52:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42176EC4.8080700@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52acq0ttdg.fsf@topspin.com>

Roland Dreier wrote:

>     Rene> I have no idea about the module refcounting stuff. Is there
>     Rene> a chance that create_workqueue() could increase a reference
>     Rene> somewhere so that the module wouldn't be allowed to unload
>     Rene> untill after a destroy_workqueue()?
> 
> There's no point to doing this, since it's adding complexity to try
> and avoid a very obvious and easy to find bug.  Other types of
> resource leaks are harder to find, but a module not destroying a
> workqueue is going to be trivial to spot and fix.

Yes, fair enough. Thank you.

Rene.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-19 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-19  1:48 workqueue - process context Vicente Feito
2005-02-19  4:57 ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-19  2:02   ` Vicente Feito
2005-02-19  5:03     ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-19 14:31   ` Rene Herman
2005-02-19 16:19     ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-19 16:52       ` Rene Herman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-19  2:38 Vicente Feito

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