Re: workqueue - process context

[Rene Herman]

Roland Dreier wrote:

>     Rene> I have no idea about the module refcounting stuff. Is there
>     Rene> a chance that create_workqueue() could increase a reference
>     Rene> somewhere so that the module wouldn't be allowed to unload
>     Rene> untill after a destroy_workqueue()?
>
> There's no point to doing this, since it's adding complexity to try
> and avoid a very obvious and easy to find bug.  Other types of
> resource leaks are harder to find, but a module not destroying a
> workqueue is going to be trivial to spot and fix.

Yes, fair enough. Thank you.

Rene.
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