From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>,
gregkh@suse.de, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:02:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703151402.08097.oneukum@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703151219540.12584@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 13:31 schrieb Hugh Dickins:
> Quite apart from this mysterious "other task", I don't understand
> "access" either.
>
> Perhaps "defer" would best capture the idea of another-task and
> maybe-delay? sysfs_defer_work(), struct sysfs_deferred_work?
But we do not wish to defer or delay anything.
How about: sysfs_action_from_neutral_context
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-15 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-08 13:05 refcounting drivers' data structures used in sysfs buffers Oliver Neukum
2007-03-08 16:02 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-09 0:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-09 16:32 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-09 16:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-09 17:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-09 17:18 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-09 17:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-09 19:32 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-09 20:05 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-09 20:27 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-09 20:39 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-09 20:08 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-09 20:48 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-10 19:19 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-12 8:54 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-12 14:57 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-12 15:23 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-12 15:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-12 15:59 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-12 16:21 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-12 18:25 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-12 19:31 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-12 19:49 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-12 20:03 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-12 20:15 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-12 20:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-12 20:45 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-12 21:31 ` Richard Purdie
2007-03-13 15:00 ` 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock Alan Stern
2007-03-13 18:42 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-03-13 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14 16:12 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-14 18:43 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-03-14 19:23 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-15 10:27 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-03-15 12:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-15 13:02 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2007-03-15 13:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-15 13:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-15 14:27 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-15 15:32 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-03-15 16:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-15 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-15 19:50 ` [PATCH] sysfs and driver core: add callback helper, used by SCSI and S390 Alan Stern
2007-03-15 19:50 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-15 22:47 ` patch sysfs-and-driver-core-add-callback-helper-used-by-scsi-and-s390.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
2007-03-15 22:47 ` gregkh
2007-03-15 19:51 ` [PATCH] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute unregistration Alan Stern
2007-03-13 19:00 ` 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock Hugh Dickins
2007-03-13 20:09 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-13 20:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-13 21:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-13 21:20 ` Alan Stern
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-10 20:44 Alan Stern
2007-03-06 19:20 Hugh Dickins
2007-03-06 20:16 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-07 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-07 14:38 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-07 15:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-07 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-07 16:59 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-07 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-07 18:16 ` Oliver Neukum
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