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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	luciano.coelho@intel.com, emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com,
	tj@kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, ming.lei@canonical.com,
	zajec5@gmail.com
Cc: jeyu@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, pmladek@suse.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linuxwifi@intel.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] iwlwifi: enhance final opmode work
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 08:12:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1488352350.2698.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170217020903.6370-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> (sfid-20170217_031056_571505_F608D489)


> One of the limitations of using async_schedule() though is we cannot
> request_module() synchronously on async calls given that the module
> initialization code will call async_synchronize_full() if the module
> being initialized happened to have used async work on its
> initialization routine, otherwise we'd deadlock.
> 
> So, I either I change back to workqueus or we live happy with either:

I really think you should avoid breaking this API and change back.
Drivers have been using it, how to avoid the use-after-free with a
completion is well known, and there's generally no issue.

Making things "easier" while requiring lots of churn everywhere isn't
always a good thing.

If you end up introducing some new API then perhaps that new API would
make sense to use async_schedule(), but I don't really see all that
much point in changing all of this now.

johannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-01  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-17  2:08 [RFC 0/5] iwlwifi: enhance final opmode work Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-17  2:08 ` [RFC 1/5] iwlwifi: fix drv cleanup on opmode registration failure Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-19  9:16   ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2017-02-20 17:32     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-17  2:09 ` [RFC 2/5] iwlwifi: fix request_module() use Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-19  9:47   ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2017-02-21  2:23     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-21  7:16       ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2017-02-21 18:15         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-21 20:17           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-22  0:18             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-22  2:09               ` [PATCH v2 0/2] iwlwifi: corner case fix and request module changes Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-22  2:09                 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] iwlwifi: fix drv cleanup on opmode registration failure Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-22  2:09                 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] iwlwifi: simplify requesting ops module Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-22  2:10               ` [PATCH v2 0/2] iwlwifi: share opmode start code Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-22  2:10                 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] iwlwifi: share opmode start work code Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-22  2:10                 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] iwlwifi: convert final opmode work into a workqueue Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-17  2:09 ` [RFC 3/5] iwlwifi: share opmode start work code Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-17  2:09 ` [RFC 4/5] iwlwifi: move opmode loading to shared routine Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-17  2:09 ` [RFC 5/5] iwlwifi: convert final opmode work into a workqueue Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-03-01  7:12 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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