Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] rust: workqueue: restrict delayed work to global wqs

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 07:28:11PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > delayed_work is just pointing to the wq pointer. On destroy_workqueue(), we
> > can shut it down and free all the supporting stuff while leaving zombie wq
> > struct which noops execution and let the whole thing go away when refs reach
> > zero?
> 
> But isn't that a problem for e.g. self-freeing work? If we don't run the
> work, then its memory is just leaked.

Yeah, good point. Maybe we should just keep the whole thing up while
removing it from sysfs. Would that work?

Thanks.

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tejun