From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 13:51:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204125111.GH17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151203220406.GA2630@mtj.duckdns.org>
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 05:04:06PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > One solution is to always fail maybe_create_worker() when PF_MEMALLOC is
> > set, thus always hitting the mayday button.
>
> I'm not following. When PF_MEMALLOC is set where?
It seems I made a false assumption. I was thinking the worker creation
was done from queue/flush context, but its done by other workers, at a
time when PF_MEMALLOC cannot be set.
In any case, no objections to the proposed patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-04 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-03 0:28 [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 0:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 14:49 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 17:50 ` Don Zickus
2015-12-03 19:43 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 20:12 ` Ulrich Obergfell
2015-12-03 20:54 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-04 8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-12-04 16:52 ` Don Zickus
2015-12-04 13:19 ` Ulrich Obergfell
2015-12-07 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2015-12-07 21:38 ` Don Zickus
2015-12-07 21:39 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-08 16:00 ` Don Zickus
2015-12-08 16:31 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 9:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03 10:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03 14:48 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 15:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03 15:06 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 19:26 ` [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 20:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03 20:56 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-03 21:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03 22:04 ` Tejun Heo
2015-12-04 12:51 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-12-07 15:58 ` Tejun Heo
2016-01-26 17:38 ` Thierry Reding
2016-01-28 10:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-28 12:47 ` Thierry Reding
2016-01-28 12:48 ` Thierry Reding
2016-01-29 11:09 ` Tejun Heo
2016-01-29 15:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-29 18:28 ` Tejun Heo
2016-01-29 10:59 ` [PATCH wq/for-4.5-fixes] workqueue: skip flush dependency checks for legacy workqueues Tejun Heo
2016-01-29 15:07 ` Thierry Reding
2016-01-29 18:32 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-02 6:54 ` Archit Taneja
2016-03-10 15:12 ` [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Adrian Hunter
2016-03-11 17:52 ` Tejun Heo
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