Re: [PATCH 1/2] MMC: fix all hangs related to mmc/sd card insert/removal during suspend/resume.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:53:21 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:19 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: 
> > > On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 22:26 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: 
> ...
> > > > I *do* use freezable  work-queue.
> > > 
> > > I overlooked that, sorry.
> > > 
> > > > However since this is pm notifier, it is called before userspace and the
> > > > workqueue is frozen.
> > > > Therefore I would like manually to freeze the workqueue from the pm
> > > > notifier.
> > > 
> > > No, that won't work.  You need to find an alternative solution.  I guess you
> > > may insert a work item that's going to sleep until a condition is
> > > satisfied (analogous to a workqueue barrier) and wait for it to 
> > This screams to be done in generic way.
> > Something like suspend_workqueue() and resume_workqueue();
> 
> Well, there was no need for that until now. :-)
> 
> > In addition to that I just found that .suspend function sometimes can
> > return -ENOSYS, which triggers card removal. I wrongly remove that chunk
> > of code.
> > 
> > To make the thing picture perfect I would have to invest more time to
> > it, I will do so as soon as I finish my exams.
> > 
> > Meanwhile the current patch already fixes all but corner cases or rather
> > nasty hang on suspend with any MMC/SD card inserted.
> 
> OK
> 
> I think Andrew has already taken [2/2].

I took them both, but I need to come back to this discussion to work
out what to do with them now.

> Andrew, who's maintaining MMC now?

Pierre stopped doing it, so I'm now pretending to.

I actually pretend to maintain a huge number of subsystems and should
sprinkle akpms all over MAINTAINERS so stuff doesn't get lost.