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/**
* schedule_work - put work task in global workqueue
* @work: job to be done
*
* Returns zero if @work was already on the kernel-global workqueue and
* non-zero otherwise.
*
* This puts a job in the kernel-global workqueue if it was not already
* queued and leaves it in the same position on the kernel-global
* workqueue otherwise.
*/
int schedule_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
return queue_work(keventd_wq, work);
}