On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 23:20 -0700, Austin Schuh wrote: > For workqueues, as long as the helper doesn't block on a lock which > requires the work queue to be freed up, it will eventually become > unblocked and make progress. The helper _should_ only need the pool > lock, which will wake the helper back up when it is available again. > Nothing should go to sleep in an un-recoverable way with the work pool > lock held.
Well, Thomas killed taking a lock from within the core of a lock, so that wart shrank back to microscopic. Applying that same ointment to the plug puller gizmo and schedule_work() would be most excellent. -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
