On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 10:39 +0100, Benjamin Beichler wrote: > sorry for introducing that error, but I'm a bit confused by the > workqueue documentation. > My assumption was, that deleting hwsim radios is reclaiming memory, and > since this queue does nothing else it would save/necessary to set this flag. > > Maybe a hint in the documentation, that a work item on a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM > queue must not call flush of an !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM queue would be nice. > Maybe it's kind of obvious, but there is also a reminder not to forget > that flag, if a queue may have work items that reclaim memory Yeah, honestly, I'm not really sure either. Clearly we can't set it, but other drivers also set it... I don't think it was *intended* for when you're freeing memory, since I think reclaiming is what happens when you write out dirty buffers to disk etc. johannes
