linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH pm 1/2] usb_storage: don't use set_freezable_with

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Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:03:29 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH pm 1/2] usb_storage: don't use set_freezable_with_signal()

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 05:37:26PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> The current implementation of set_freezable_with_signal() is buggy and
> tricky to get right.  usb-storage is the only user and its use can be
> avoided trivially.
> 
> All usb-storage wants is to be able to sleep with timeout and get
> woken up if freezing() becomes true.  This can be trivially
> implemented by doing interruptible wait w/ freezing() included in the
> wait condition.  There's no reason to use set_freezable_with_signal().
> 
> Perform interruptible wait on freezing() instead of using
> set_freezable_with_signal(), which is scheduled for removal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
> Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> ---
> 
> These two patches are on top of "freezer: fix various bugs and
> simplify implementation, take#2" patchset[1] and are also available in
> the following git branch.
> 
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git pm-kill-freezable_with_signal
> 
> If usb-storage ppl are okay with it, I think routing this through pm
> would be the easiest.  Oh, and this definitely is for the next merge
> window.

I'm fine with it going that way:
	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

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