On 2023/03/15 19:47, Luca Coelho wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-03-14 at 20:21 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>> Like commit c4f135d643823a86 ("workqueue: Wrap flush_workqueue() using a
>> macro") says, flush_scheduled_work() is dangerous and will be forbidden.
>>
>> Now that i915 is the last flush_scheduled_work() user, for now let's
>> start with blind conversion inside the whole drivers/gpu/drm/i915/
>> directory. Jani Nikula wants to use two workqueues in order to avoid
>> adding new module globals, but I'm not familiar enough to audit and
>> split into two workqueues.
>>
>> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87sfeita1p.fsf@xxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> Add missing alloc_workqueue() failure check.
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your patch! But it seems that you only fixed that failure
> check, without making the other change Jani proposed, namely, move the
> work to the i915 struct instead of making it a global.
>
> I'm working on that now.
What is estimated time of arrival on this?
Can we expect your work in Linux 6.4 ?
