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SubjectRe: [PATCH] add execute_in_process_context() API
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:00:19PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > +int execute_in_process_context(void (*fn)(void *data), void *data)
> > +{
> > + struct work_queue_work *wqw;
> > +
> > + if (!in_interrupt()) {
> > + fn(data);
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > +
> > + wqw = kmalloc(sizeof(struct work_queue_work), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > +
> > + if (unlikely(!wqw)) {
> > + printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to allocate memory\n");
> > + WARN_ON(1);
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + }
> > +
> > + INIT_WORK(&wqw->work, execute_in_process_context_work, wqw);
> > + wqw->fn = fn;
> > + wqw->data = data;
> > + schedule_work(&wqw->work);
> > +
> > + return 1;
> > +}
>
> After the workqueue has run, what free's wqw ?
>

The callback (execute_in_process_context_work())

The trap with this patch is that the caller has to run
flush_scheduled_work() at the right time. But hopefully anyone who's using
it knows that by now.

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