linux-kernel - Re: [update 2] Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Avoid losing wakeup events during suspend

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:40:56 +0200
From:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, mark gross <640e9920@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [update 2] Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Avoid losing wakeup events
 during suspend

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:09:27 -0400 (EDT)
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:

> > > This requires you to define an explicit PCI_WAKEUP_COOLDOWN delay.  I 
> > > think that's okay; I had to do something similar with USB and SCSI.  
> > > (And I still think it would be a good idea to prevent workqueue threads 
> > > from freezing until their queues are empty.)

I'm not that familiar with the freezer, but couldn't it be
deadlocky if the work depends on some already frozen part?

What about a new work-type that calls
pm_relax() after executing it's workfunction and executing
pm_stay_awake() on enqueue?


Cheers,
Flo
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