linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] init, block: try to load default elevator module early during boot

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Message-ID: <20130117185935.GC16568@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:59:35 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@...il.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] init, block: try to load default elevator module
 early during boot

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:46:47AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Oh yeah, it's coming.  I just wanted to finish something else first
> > and, as turning on PF_WQ_WORKER on a rescuer thread has some chance of
> > developing into an obscure difficult-to-trigger and diagnose problem,
> > don't want to hurry it too much.
> 
> Ok. I think I'll delay these things for 3.9 anyway, since the actual
> _problem_ people are seeing should be fixed with your other patch. So
> I guess it's not really all that critical any more.

If you're okay with it, I'll route these two and the patches to add
warning through a wq branch.  There's already a wq/for-3.9 patch which
am_i_async() can make use of, so it's gonna be easier this way.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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