Re: [PATCH] add execute_in_process_context() API

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 15:25:15 EST


On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:00:19PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> +int execute_in_process_context(void (*fn)(void *data), void *data)
> +{
> + struct work_queue_work *wqw;
> +
> + if (!in_interrupt()) {
> + fn(data);
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> + wqw = kmalloc(sizeof(struct work_queue_work), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +
> + if (unlikely(!wqw)) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to allocate memory\n");
> + WARN_ON(1);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> + INIT_WORK(&wqw->work, execute_in_process_context_work, wqw);
> + wqw->fn = fn;
> + wqw->data = data;
> + schedule_work(&wqw->work);
> +
> + return 1;
> +}

After the workqueue has run, what free's wqw ?

Dave

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