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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB Developers <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB hangs
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:11:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40021E8E.3010709@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040111233104.GF23039@one-eyed-alien.net>


>>>	 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



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-12  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-11  0:07 USB hangs Alan Cox
2004-01-11  0:23 ` Matthew Dharm
2004-01-11  0:49   ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2004-01-11  1:01     ` Matthew Dharm
2004-01-11  1:06       ` Oliver Neukum
2004-01-11  1:40     ` David Brownell
2004-01-11  2:33   ` Alan Cox
2004-01-11  8:02     ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2004-01-11 22:39       ` Alan Cox
2004-01-11 23:29         ` Oliver Neukum
2004-01-12 15:53           ` Alan Stern
2004-01-11 23:25     ` David Brownell
2004-01-11 23:31       ` Matthew Dharm
2004-01-12  4:11         ` David Brownell [this message]
2004-01-12  7:39           ` Matthew Dharm
2004-01-12  8:37             ` Oliver Neukum
2004-01-12 16:27               ` Alan Stern
2004-01-12 20:56                 ` Alan Cox
2004-01-16 13:14                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-11 23:33       ` Oliver Neukum
2004-01-12  0:09         ` Alan Cox
2004-01-12  0:25           ` Matthew Dharm
2004-01-11 18:46 ` Lukas Postupa
2004-01-11 20:04   ` Matthew Dharm
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-28 16:50 [linux-usb-devel] " Martin Bogomolni

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