workqueue: Better document teardown for delayed_work

destroy_workqueue() does not ensure that non-pending work submitted with
queue_delayed_work() gets cancelled. The caller has to ensure that
manually.

Add this information about delayed_work in destroy_workqueue()'s
docstring.

Add a TODO for destroy_workqueue() to wait for all delayed_work.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Philipp Stanner
2025-04-04 12:15:44 +02:00
committed by Tejun Heo
parent 8ffd015db8
commit 24cdab5787

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@@ -5837,6 +5837,17 @@ static bool pwq_busy(struct pool_workqueue *pwq)
* @wq: target workqueue
*
* Safely destroy a workqueue. All work currently pending will be done first.
*
* This function does NOT guarantee that non-pending work that has been
* submitted with queue_delayed_work() and similar functions will be done
* before destroying the workqueue. The fundamental problem is that, currently,
* the workqueue has no way of accessing non-pending delayed_work. delayed_work
* is only linked on the timer-side. All delayed_work must, therefore, be
* canceled before calling this function.
*
* TODO: It would be better if the problem described above wouldn't exist and
* destroy_workqueue() would cleanly cancel all pending and non-pending
* delayed_work.
*/
void destroy_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
{