upto WQ_MAX_ACTIVE / 2 - 1 works concurrently. Unless some combination can result in dependency loop longer than max_active, deadlock won't happen and thus it's unnecessary to check whether current_is_keventd() before trying to schedule a work. Kill current_is_keventd(). (Lockdep annotations are broken. We need lock_map_acquire_read_norecurse()) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Oleg Nesterov HZy