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SubjectRe: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue
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Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> writes:
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> Wouldn't that be better served by cpu_stop?

No the error handling has to be able to sleep to take VM
locks. That's the whole point its handed off to a
workqueue. Otherwise it could be done directly.

-Andi

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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


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