Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 16:01:48 EST


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:57:22PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2012, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > +       cancel_delayed_work_sync(&fd_timeout);
> > > > +       cancel_delayed_work_sync(&fd_timer);
> > > > +       destroy_workqueue(system_nrt_wq);
> > >
> > > Well, *that* doesn't look right.
> > >
> > > I think just a "flush_workqueue()" is in order.
> >
> > System wqs shouldn't be flushed (nothing guarantees that flush will
> > finish in fixed amount of time). We probably should make that
> > explicit by whining when someone tries to flush one of the system wqs.
> > Here, the two cancel_delayed_work_sync() calls should be enough.
>
> Well, then I think this might be an issue for straightforward conversion
> of floppy driver to system_nrt_wq -- see floppy_grab_irq_and_dma().

Hmmm? flush_work() is fine. flush_workqueue() isn't. Am I missing
something?

--
tejun
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