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From:   Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] deadlock with flush_work() in UAS
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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