Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162927AbWLGSCu (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:02:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1162924AbWLGSCt (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:02:49 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:51137 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162922AbWLGSCr (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:02:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:01:56 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: David Howells , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Roland Dreier , Andy Fleming , Ben Collins , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy In-Reply-To: <20061207095253.30059224.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <1165125055.5320.14.camel@gullible> <20061203011625.60268114.akpm@osdl.org> <20061205123958.497a7bd6.akpm@osdl.org> <6FD5FD7A-4CC2-481A-BC87-B869F045B347@freescale.com> <20061205132643.d16db23b.akpm@osdl.org> <20061205135753.9c3844f8.akpm@osdl.org> <20061206075729.b2b6aa52.akpm@osdl.org> <20061206224207.8a8335ee.akpm@osdl.org> <20061207095253.30059224.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 688 Lines: 18 On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > umm.. Putting a work_struct* into struct cpu_workqueue_struct and then > doing appropriate things with cpu_workqueue_struct.lock might work. Yeah, that looks sane. We can't hide anything in "struct work", because we can't trust it any more once it's been dispatched, but adding a pointer to the cpu_workqueue_struct that is only used to compare against another pointer sounds fine. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/