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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:37:44 +0200 From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl> To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] make cancel_xxx_work_sync() return a boolean On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:37:10PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Change cancel_work_sync() and cancel_delayed_work_sync() to return a boolean > indicating whether the work was actually cancelled. A zero return value means > that the work was not pending/queued. > > Without that kind of change it is not possible to avoid flush_workqueue() > sometimes, see the next patch as an example. > > Also, this patch unifies both functions and kills the (unlikely) busy-wait loop. > > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru> Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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