linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock

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Message-ID: <20070314194337.5d439dab@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:43:37 +0100
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@...ibm.com>, <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:12:37 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:

> This seems more elegant (not yet tested).  Cornelia, does it look okay to 
> you?

Works for me (grouping & ungrouping ctc) and looks sane. Some more
comments below.


> +struct other_task_struct {
> +	struct kobject 		*kobj;
> +	void			(*func)(void *);
> +	void			*data;
> +	struct work_struct	work;
> +};
> +
> +static void other_task_work(struct work_struct *work)
> +{
> +	struct other_task_struct *ots = container_of(work,
> +			struct other_task_struct, work);
> +
> +	(ots->func)(ots->data);
> +	kobject_put(ots->kobj);
> +	kfree(ots);
> +}

The naming seems a bit unintuitive, but I don't have a good
alternative idea. Perhaps sysfs_work_struct, sysfs_delayed_work()?

> +
> +/**
> + * sysfs_access_in_other_task - delay access from an attribute method.
> + * @kobj: object we're acting for.
> + * @func: callback function to invoke later.
> + * @data: argument to pass to @func.
> + *
> + * sysfs attribute methods must not unregister themselves or their parent
> + * kobject (which would amount to the same thing).  Attempts to do so will
> + * deadlock, since unregistration is mutually exclusive with driver
> + * callbacks.
> + *
> + * Instead methods can call this routine, which will attempt to allocate
> + * and schedule a workqueue request to carry out the requested function
> + * in the workqueue's process context.
> + *
> + * Returns 0 if the request was submitted, -ENOMEM if storage could not
> + * be allocated.
> + */
> +int sysfs_access_in_other_task(struct kobject *kobj, void (*func)(void *),
> +		void *data)

sysfs_delay_access()?


> +/**
> + * device_access_in_other_task - delay access from an attribute method.
> + * @dev: device.
> + * @func: callback function to invoke later.
> + *
> + * Attribute methods must not unregister themselves or their parent device
> + * (which would amount to the same thing).  Attempts to do so will deadlock,
> + * since unregistration is mutually exclusive with driver callbacks.
> + *
> + * Instead methods can call this routine, which will attempt to allocate
> + * and schedule a workqueue request to carry out the requested function
> + * in the workqueue's process context.
> + *
> + * Returns 0 if the request was submitted, -ENOMEM if storage could not
> + * be allocated.
> + */
> +int device_access_in_other_task(struct device *dev,
> +		void (*func)(struct device *))
> +{
> +	return sysfs_access_in_other_task(&dev->kobj,
> +			(void (*)(void *)) func, dev);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_access_in_other_task);

device_delay_access()?

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