Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266042AbUALEEW (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:04:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266043AbUALEEW (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:04:22 -0500 Received: from mtaw6.prodigy.net ([64.164.98.56]:54708 "EHLO mtaw6.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266042AbUALEEV (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:04:21 -0500 Message-ID: <40021E8E.3010709@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:11:58 -0800 From: David Brownell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dharm CC: Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , USB Developers , Greg KH Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB hangs References: <1073779636.17720.3.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20040111002304.GE16484@one-eyed-alien.net> <1073788437.17793.0.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <4001DB52.7030908@pacbell.net> <20040111233104.GF23039@one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20040111233104.GF23039@one-eyed-alien.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 23 >>> Plus I'd >>>argue PF_MEMALLOC is a better solution anyway. >> >>It certainly seems like a more comprehensive fix for that >>particular class of problems! :) > > > Is it really more comprehensive? As I see it, it will only affect code > executed in the context of the usb-storage thread. But, what about code > which is invoked in tasklets or other contexts? Isn't it true that only that thread is allowed to submit usb-storage i/o requests? - Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/