linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] wacom + runtime PM = AA deadlock

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Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:17:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>,
	<pingc@...om.com>, linux-pm <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-input@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] wacom + runtime PM = AA deadlock

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> PM in this driver looks broken. Please try this.
> 
> In short you want to drop the PM reference and depend on remote
> wakeup and busy marking for this driver. Currently it gets a reference
> on every open() but never drops it.
> 
> For locking you depend on the PM core's internal lock. You simply
> make sure you have a PM reference during open() and close()

Is there any point in resuming the device during close() just in order
to kill the interrupt URB?  It seems counterproductive -- if the device 
had been suspended then there wouldn't be any interrupt URB to kill in 
the first place.

Alan Stern

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