Re: [tip:tracing/urgent] tracing: Fix too large stack usage in do_one_initcall()

[Arjan van de Ven]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I do wonder, though. Maybe we should never have that MAX_WORK limit, and 
> instead limit the parallelism by actively trying to yield when there's too 
> much work? That bootup sequence _does_ tend to have deep callchains (with 
> all the crazy device register crud), and maybe we should actively see the 
> async work code as not just a way to speed up boot, but also as a way to 
> avoid deep callchains.

makes sense; the MAX_WORK was more a sanity check to kill out of hand recursion
than anything else...
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