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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] deadlock with flush_work() in UAS
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:38:57 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1906261036550.1550-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1561536635.23604.8.camel@suse.com>

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Montag, den 24.06.2019, 10:22 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > But that pattern makes no sense; a driver would never use it.  The 
> > driver would just do the reset itself.
> 
> Correct. But UAS and storage themselves still need to use
> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM for their workqueues, don't they?

Perhaps so for uas.  usb-storage uses a work queue only for scanning 
targets, which doesn't interfere with the block I/O pathway.

Alan Stern


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-26 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-18 14:53 [RFC] deadlock with flush_work() in UAS Oliver Neukum
2019-06-18 15:29 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-18 15:29   ` Oliver Neukum
2019-06-18 15:59     ` Alan Stern
2019-06-20 14:10       ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-24  8:56         ` Oliver Neukum
2019-06-24 14:22           ` Alan Stern
2019-06-26  8:10             ` Oliver Neukum
2019-06-26 14:38               ` Alan Stern [this message]
2019-07-01 11:02                 ` Oliver Neukum
2019-07-01 14:20                   ` Alan Stern

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