On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 06:26:24PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 06:25:43PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:07:46AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > In fact, flushing it won't help because it can requeue itself, right?
There's cancel_work_sync() to stop the self-requeueing ones.
> From that POV a dedicated WQ kept it simple.
A dedicated wq doesn't do anything for that. You can't shut down a
workqueue with a pending work item on it. destroy_workqueue() will
try to drain the target wq, warn if it doesn't finish in certain
number of iterations and just keep trying indefinitely.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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