Re: [syzbot] possible deadlock in worker_thread

Bart Van Assche
2022-02-15T17:05:48Z

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.