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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Matt Reimer <mattjreimer@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	"linux-pm" <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Is it supposed to be ok to call del_gendisk while userspace is frozen?
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 22:30:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005152230.10230.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1005142231390.11498-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

On Saturday 15 May 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010, Matt Reimer wrote:
> 
> > > I don't see anything wrong with the patch itself, but I dislike the
> > > description.  Devices can come and go from any hotpluggable bus, not
> > > just MMC/SD.  That just happens to be the first place the problem was
> > > observed.
> > 
> > Good point. How about this?
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > From 813bd223e5a2fa577b9e64ddf12654a93d0aab8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Matt Reimer <mreimer@sdgsystems.com>
> > Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:36:54 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH] fs: prevent hang on suspend/resume when MMC/SD card present
> > 
> > Devices can come and go bus during suspend or resume, when the
> > writeback thread is frozen, resulting in a hang. Prevent the hang
> > by thawing the writeback thread in del_gendisk().
> 
> I would have said "the block layer's writeback thread", but this is 
> okay.

OK, so now I have a question who's going to take the patch.

Jens, what's your opinion?

Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-15 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-13 13:29 Is it supposed to be ok to call del_gendisk while userspace is frozen? Maxim Levitsky
2010-02-15 16:00 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-02-15 21:04   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-16 16:27     ` [linux-pm] " Alan Stern
2010-02-20 22:22       ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-02-23 12:33       ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-23 15:29         ` Alan Stern
2010-02-23 15:58           ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-23 16:33             ` Alan Stern
2010-02-23 22:16               ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-24 15:59                 ` Alan Stern
2010-02-24 19:12                   ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-24 20:19                     ` Alan Stern
2010-02-23 16:42             ` Testing for dirty buffers on a block device Alan Stern
2010-02-23 22:13               ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-24 15:51                 ` Alan Stern
2010-02-24 19:09                   ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-24 20:09                     ` Alan Stern
2010-02-25  8:20                       ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-25 22:19                         ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-01  6:35           ` [linux-pm] Is it supposed to be ok to call del_gendisk while userspace is frozen? Pavel Machek
2010-03-01 15:23             ` Alan Stern
2010-03-03 21:50               ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-03 22:23                 ` Alan Stern
2010-03-04  0:23                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-03-04  2:48                     ` Alan Stern
2010-03-04 19:26                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-03-04 19:36                         ` Alan Stern
2010-03-04 20:04                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-03-04 20:15                         ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-22 23:40                           ` Matt Reimer
2010-04-23  5:17                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-11 23:55                               ` Matt Reimer
2010-05-12 14:50                                 ` Alan Stern
2010-05-13 21:44                                   ` Matt Reimer
2010-05-13 21:54                                     ` Alan Stern
2010-05-13 22:20                                       ` Matt Reimer
2010-05-13 22:47                                         ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-15  2:37                                           ` Alan Stern
2010-05-15  2:53                                             ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-16 19:35                                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-15  2:32                                         ` Alan Stern
2010-05-15 20:30                                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2010-05-16  7:49                                             ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-16 19:38                                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-16 21:32                                                 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-17  2:22                                                   ` Alan Stern
2010-05-17  7:45                                                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-17 20:35                                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-17 22:51                                                         ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-18 19:43                                                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-18 20:06                                                             ` Alan Stern
2010-05-24 19:02                                                           ` Pavel Machek
2010-05-24 21:21                                                             ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-03-04 13:53                   ` Pavel Machek
2010-06-04 11:20                     ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-06-04 14:59                       ` Alan Stern
2010-06-04 15:19                         ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-06-04 17:52                           ` Alan Stern

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