From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] virtio_balloon: Convert "vballoon" kthread into a workqueue Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:07:46 -0500 Message-ID: <20141120160746.GI14877@htj.dyndns.org> References: <1416499397-16669-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1416499397-16669-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.cz> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Petr Mladek Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jiri Kosina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeff Epler List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: ... > @@ -476,7 +460,6 @@ static void virtballoon_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev) > { > struct virtio_balloon *vb = vdev->priv; > > - kthread_stop(vb->thread); > remove_common(vb); > kfree(vb); > } Shouldn't the work item be flushed before removal is complete? Thanks. -- tejun