[PATCH 7/9] afs: don't use PREPARE_WORK
Tejun Heo
tj at kernel.org
Thu Feb 20 17:46:36 EST 2014
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:00:05PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > PREPARE_[DELAYED_]WORK() are being phased out. They have few users
> > and a nasty surprise in terms of reentrancy guarantee as workqueue
> > considers work items to be different if they don't have the same work
> > function.
>
> Why so? Isn't the work item address sufficient to distinguish them?
Because we ended up introducing deadlocks through work items which are
freed and then recycled.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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