linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Remove deprecated workqueue interface users

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Message-ID: <20160816145120.GC9516@htj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:51:20 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
Cc:	Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Remove deprecated workqueue interface users

Hello, Sebastian.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:23:21AM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> At least the charger monitoring is timing critical: Many charger
> chips must be monitored (e.g. for over-temp. events). I think
> all of them have a self-protection, or a watchdog, so they would
> actually stop charging instead of overheating, but that may result
> in system failure due to power loss. Battery monitors also include
> some temperture safety checks. So without careful case-by-case
> checking the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM should not be removed IMHO.

Thanks for the clarification.  Yeah, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM seems like the
right call.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun