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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Cc: ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br,
	matthew.garrett@nebula.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: moved hotkey_thread_mutex lock after set_freezable()
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130225155445.d3eef1ad.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361697722-4575-1-git-send-email-artem.savkov@gmail.com>

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:22:02 +0400
Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com> wrote:

> set_freezable() checks freezing during which no locks should be held.
> hotkey_thread_mutex lock should be moved closer to where it is actually needed.
> 

Thanks.

When fixing a bug, we always like to see a full description of that bug
so we can better work out which kernel versions need the fix.

Did you actually hit a lockup because of this?  Or was it just from
code inspection?  Or ...  ?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-25 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-24  9:22 [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: moved hotkey_thread_mutex lock after set_freezable() Artem Savkov
2013-02-25 23:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-02-26  5:47   ` Artem Savkov

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