Re: [linux-pm] [2.6.30-rc1-git2 regressions] Hibernation broken and (minor but annoying) audio problem

Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-11T01:46:13Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Hmm.
>
> I'm not 100% sure that patch is good.
>
> The reason? I think it's going to deadlock if an async caller ends up
> wanting to load a module, because then the nestecd
> "async_synchronize_full()" will basically want to wait for itself.
>
> So it's a good test-patch, and maybe no async caller ever loads a module,
> but it makes me a bit nervous.
>
> But the fact that it fixes things for you at least means that the _reason_
> for the problem is know, and maybe there are alternative solutions. Arjan?

I just got back from the LF summit and am catching up on mail; I'll take a look
at the history.