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From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: device model documentation 2/3
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 21:54:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-102331599211717@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-102338823505348@msgid-missing>

Am Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2002 21:11 schrieb Patrick Mochel:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > SUSPEND_DISABLE tells the device to stop I/O transactions. When it
> > > stops transactions, or what it should do with unfinished transactions
> > > is a policy of the driver. After this call, the driver should not
> > > accept any other I/O requests.
> >
> > Does this mean that memory allocations in the suspend/resume
> > implementations must be made with GFP_NOIO respectively
> > GFP_ATOMIC ?
> > It would seem so.
>
> Why would you allocate memory on a resume transition?

We need to send messages to the device to restore state, don't we ?
Any activity on USB can allocate memory. We've had to change the API
to fix deadlock problems due to this already.

	Regards
		Oliver

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-05 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-02  4:49 device model documentation 2/3 Pavel Machek
2002-06-05 12:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 12:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 19:04 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-06-05 19:11 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-06-05 21:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 21:54 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-04 16:25 Patrick Mochel
2002-06-02  2:00 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-04 15:50 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-04 17:49 ` Greg KH
2002-06-05 12:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 19:11   ` Patrick Mochel
2002-06-02  4:49     ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-05 21:54     ` Oliver Neukum

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