Re: [PATCH 0/8] Remove deprecated workqueue interface users

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Aug 16 2016 - 10:51:27 EST


Hello, Sebastian.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:23:21AM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> At least the charger monitoring is timing critical: Many charger
> chips must be monitored (e.g. for over-temp. events). I think
> all of them have a self-protection, or a watchdog, so they would
> actually stop charging instead of overheating, but that may result
> in system failure due to power loss. Battery monitors also include
> some temperture safety checks. So without careful case-by-case
> checking the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM should not be removed IMHO.

Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM seems like the
right call.

Thanks.

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tejun