From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>,
Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>,
Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>,
"GeyslanG.Bem@Karyakshetra" <geyslan@gmail.com>,
Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <MHocko@suse.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Saurabh Karajgaonkar <skarajga@visteon.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:23:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160727192308.GP4144@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1607271450240.1664-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Hello, Alan.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 02:54:51PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Hmm... I didn't know the whole USB stack could operate without
> > allocating memory. Does usb stack have mempools and stuff all the way
> > through?
>
> No -- the USB stack does need to allocate memory in order to operate.
> But it is careful to use GFP_NOIO or GFP_ATOMIC for allocations that
> might be on the block-device path.
Hmm... That doesn't really make them dependable during memory reclaim.
What happens when those allocations fail?
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-27 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-27 9:20 [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-07-27 9:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-07-27 18:00 ` Tejun Heo
2016-07-27 18:54 ` Alan Stern
2016-07-27 19:23 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-07-27 20:45 ` Alan Stern
2016-07-29 13:11 ` Tejun Heo
2016-08-01 13:50 ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-01 14:20 ` Tejun Heo
2016-08-01 18:00 ` Alan Stern
2016-08-01 18:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-02 8:06 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-08-02 8:18 ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-02 10:03 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-08-02 11:34 ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-02 11:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-08-02 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-02 13:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-08-02 19:02 ` Tejun Heo
2016-08-02 21:26 ` Michal Hocko
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