Re: [PATCH v5 04/20] kthread: Add drain_kthread_worker()

From	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v5 04/20] kthread: Add drain_kthread_worker()
Date	2016-02-27 16:20 +0100
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:23:09PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> I do not have a strong opinion here. On one hand, such a check might
> help with debugging. On the other hand, workqueues have happily lived
> without it for years.

TJ and me have a different view on these things. I'm always for the
strictest possible semantics with strong validation. TJ always worries a
lot about existing users.

Luckily, you don't have users yet :-)

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Re: [PATCH v5 04/20] kthread: Add drain_kthread_worker() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-02-25 13:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v5 04/20] kthread: Add drain_kthread_worker() Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-02-26 16:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 04/20] kthread: Add drain_kthread_worker() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-02-27 16:20 +0100

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