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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:16:25 +0100 From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.name>, Maneesh Soni <maneesh@...ibm.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock Am Dienstag, 6. März 2007 20:20 schrieb Hugh Dickins: > This comes from Oliver's commit 94bebf4d1b8e7719f0f3944c037a21cfd99a4af7 > Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write() > in 2.6.21-rc1. It looks to me like sysfs_write_file downs buffer->sem > while calling flush_write_buffer, and flushing that particular write > buffer entails downing buffer->sem in orphan_all_buffers. I had not thought about sysfs removing files in sysfs. > Suspend no longer deadlocks with the following silly patch, but I expect > this either pokes a small hole in your scheme, or renders it pointless. The latter. > Maybe that commit needs to be reverted, or maybe you can see how to fix > it up for -rc3. If you want a quick fix a work queue could be used, but it's a kludge. Suggestions, anybody? Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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