Re: [syzbot] possible deadlock in worker_thread
From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Tue Feb 15 2022 - 12:05:49 EST
On 2/15/22 04:48, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
I do not want to do like
- system_wq = alloc_workqueue("events", 0, 0);
+ system_wq = alloc_workqueue("events", __WQ_SYSTEM_WIDE, 0);
because the intent of this change is to ask developers to create their own WQs.
I want more developers to use the system-wide workqueues since that
reduces memory usage. That matters for embedded devices running Linux.
Thanks,
Bart.