From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
Geunyoung Kim <nenggun.kim@samsung.com>,
Junghak Sung <jh1009.sung@samsung.com>,
Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>,
Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [media] cx25821: Drop Freeing of Workqueue
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:55:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160718235527.GX3078@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c138d0a859516d8a4176c4ddb32b83119d4ad51c.1468659580.git.bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 02:41:49PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> Workqueues shouldn't be freed. destroy_workqueue should be used instead.
> destroy_workqueue safely destroys a workqueue and ensures that all pending
> work items are done before destroying the workqueue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This needs to be marked for stable.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-18 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-16 9:10 [PATCH 0/2] Remove improper workqueue usage Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-07-16 9:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] [media] cx25821: Drop Freeing of Workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-07-18 23:55 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-07-16 9:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] [media] cx25821: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-07-18 23:56 ` Tejun Heo
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