Hello, On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > OK, so you suggest to do the following: > > 1. Add a flag into struct kthread_worker that will prevent > from further queuing. This doesn't add any protection, right? It's getting freed anyway. > 2. kthread_create_worker()/kthread_destroy_worker() will > not longer dynamically allocate struct kthread_worker. > They will just start/stop the kthread. Ah, okay, I don't think we need to change this. I was suggesting to simplify it by dropping the draining and just do flush from destroy. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>