From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
phasta@kernel.org, "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Lai Jiangshan" <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <benno.lossin@proton.me>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@gmail.com>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: rust: add creation of workqueues
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:36:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aAFmO0FhHrzG_F8H@cassiopeiae> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH5fLgg3RrsWy-ArWb9502st3O=DsmPsBsXoZ5M_nS7oWggJuA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 10:26:04PM +0200, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 09:22:40AM +0200, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> > > I assume you, ultimately, mean that the list of delayed_work's would be
> > > accessible through workqueue_struct, correct?
> > >
> > > And then destroy_workqueue() could loop over all of them with
> > > cancel_delayed_work_sync()?
> >
> > Yeap, I was thinking flush_delayed_work() but maybe
> > cancel_delayed_work_sync() is better.
>
> But doesn't that have a cleanup problem? If the work item owns an
> allocation or a refcount that's cleared by the work item's run
> function, then using cancel_delayed_work_sync() will fail to clean
> that up. Whereas flush_delayed_work() avoids this problem.
I also think it may be a bit unexpected to users if pending "normal" work "will
be done first", but delayed work is canceled instead.
That sounds like a good source for wrong use. :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-17 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-11 15:34 [PATCH] workqueue: rust: add creation of workqueues Alice Ryhl
2025-04-14 17:23 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-15 9:05 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-04-15 17:03 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-14 18:15 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-04-15 9:01 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-04-15 10:48 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-04-16 12:17 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-04-16 19:41 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-04-16 19:57 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-17 7:22 ` Philipp Stanner
2025-04-17 7:28 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-17 20:26 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-04-17 20:36 ` Danilo Krummrich [this message]
2025-04-17 20:39 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-16 19:53 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-16 20:08 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-04-16 20:10 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-16 20:12 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-04-16 20:14 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-16 20:18 ` Alice Ryhl
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