linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueue: debug flushing deadlocks with lockdep

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Date:	Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:42:41 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueue: debug flushing deadlocks with lockdep

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:52 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> So I agree with you, such recursion is indeed bad. Can we forbid this?
> In that case this patch is even more perfect :)

I haven't seen it complain in a few days so that probably means such
usage is rather rare :)

johannes

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