linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] edac, poll timeout cannot be zero

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Message-ID: <20140212163644.GG5121@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:36:44 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	Doug Thompson <dougthompson@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] edac, poll timeout cannot be zero

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:23:11AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hah... can't you just do it on object initialization?  It's a bit
> nasty and fragile to game initialization state.
> 
> > or so... I.e., what PREPARE_WORK() does?
> 
> It allows you to change the callback without breaking the
> synchronization.  Of course, if there's a pending work item, it may or
> may not execute the newly assigned function.  It's also a bit nasty
> and has only few users in the whole kernel and I think we might wanna
> get rid of them.

Yeah, no, I certainly don't have to touch wq inner organs - I was
wondering whether there's such functionality already. The simple patch I
sent earlier should be good enough then.

Thanks!

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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