From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754017Ab2A3ALd (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:11:33 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:40710 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143Ab2A3ALc (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:11:32 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tetsuo Handa , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + kmod-avoid-deadlock-by-recursive-kmod-call.patch added to -mm tree In-Reply-To: <20120129163141.GC20803@redhat.com> References: <20120126175612.GA24011@redhat.com> <87ipjxdfbg.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20120127143234.GA13056@redhat.com> <87y5srbaf7.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20120129163141.GC20803@redhat.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.6.1-1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:56:44 +1030 Message-ID: <87aa56qedn.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:31:41 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Confused... in this case I do not understand why do you dislike the > idea to kill khelper_wq. Yes, you are confused. I was agreeing with you: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:56:12 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Can't we simply kill khelper_wq and use system_unbound_wq instead? I'd prefer that, because then we'd hit the existing "too many modprobes" check. Thanks, Rusty. I thought "I'd prefer that" was pretty clear?? Thanks, Rusty.