Re: workqueue panic in 3.4 kernel

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:34:56PM +0800, Lei Wen wrote:
> > Memory areas aren't always zero on allocation.
> 
> Shouldn't work structure be allocated with kzalloc?

It's not required to. work_struct can also be on stack. It's "init"
after all. Also, if you require clearing the memory before initing,
you would be just shifting problem from INIT to memory clearing.

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tejun
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