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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Alan Stern" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Len Brown" <len.brown@intel.com>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	"Magnus Damm" <damm@igel.co.jp>,
	"Nigel Cunningham" <nigel@tuxonice.net>,
	"Cornelia Huck" <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
	"Ming Lei" <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	"Wu Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Maxim Levitsky" <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:24:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BDA5B8B.50004@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004292316.14524.rjw@sisk.pl>

Hello,

On 04/29/2010 11:16 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> Also, we already have one PM workqueue.  It is used for runtime PM, but I guess
>>> it may be used just as well for the opportunistic suspend.  It is freezable,
>>> but would it hurt?
>>
>> No, it works, the freezable flag is just ignored when I call
>> pm_suspend and I don't run anything else on the workqueue while
>> threads are frozen. It does need to be a single threaded workqueue
>> though, so make sure you don't just change that.
> 
> Freezable workqueues have to be singlethread or else there will be unfixable
> races, so you can safely assume things will stay as they are in this respect.

Rafael, can you elaborate a bit more on this?  Just in case I missed
something while doing cmwq as it currently doesn't have such limit.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-30 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28  4:31 [PATCH 0/9] Suspend block api (version 5) Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  4:31 ` [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  4:31   ` [PATCH 2/8] PM: suspend_block: Add driver to access suspend blockers from user-space Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  4:31     ` [PATCH 3/8] PM: suspend_block: Abort task freezing if a suspend_blocker is active Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  4:31       ` [PATCH 4/8] PM: suspend_block: Add debugfs file Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  4:31         ` [PATCH 5/8] PM: suspend_block: Add suspend_blocker stats Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  4:31           ` [PATCH 6/8] PM: Add suspend blocking work Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  4:31             ` [PATCH 7/8] Input: Block suspend while event queue is not empty Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  4:31               ` [PATCH 8/8] power_supply: Block suspend while power supply change notifications are pending Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  6:06             ` [PATCH 6/8] PM: Add suspend blocking work Pavel Machek
2010-04-28  6:44             ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-28  7:02               ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  7:18                 ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-28 19:40             ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-28 20:22               ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-28 21:08                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-29 18:58                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-29 19:44                     ` [PATCH 0/2] workqueue fixlets (Was: PM: Add suspend blocking work.) Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-29 19:45                       ` [PATCH 1/2] workqueues: flush_delayed_work: keep the original workqueue for re-queueing Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-30  5:15                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-29 19:45                       ` [PATCH 2/2] workqueues: export keventd_wq Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-30  5:16                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-30  5:39                           ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-30  5:52                             ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-30 18:05                               ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-30 18:11                                 ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-29 21:08                     ` [PATCH 6/8] PM: Add suspend blocking work Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-28 21:09               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-28 22:09                 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28 22:19                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-29  3:47                     ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-29 21:09                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-28  5:07       ` [PATCH 3/8] PM: suspend_block: Abort task freezing if a suspend_blocker is active Pavel Machek
2010-04-28 20:58     ` [PATCH 2/8] PM: suspend_block: Add driver to access suspend blockers from user-space Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-28 22:31       ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28 23:05         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-28 23:38           ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-29 21:11             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-29 23:41               ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-28  6:07   ` [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api Pavel Machek
2010-04-28 19:13   ` Alan Stern
2010-04-28 21:13     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-28 23:35       ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-29 15:41         ` Alan Stern
2010-04-29 23:39           ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-30 14:41             ` Alan Stern
2010-04-28 20:50   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-29  3:37     ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-29 21:16       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-30  4:24         ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-04-30 17:26           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-20  8:30             ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-20 22:27               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-21  6:35                 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-06 15:18   ` Alan Stern
2010-05-06 19:28     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-06 19:40       ` Alan Stern
2010-05-06 23:48         ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-05-07 14:22           ` Alan Stern
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-30 22:36 [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6) Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-30 22:36 ` [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-05-02  6:56   ` Pavel Machek
2010-05-02 20:10     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-02 20:52       ` Pavel Machek
2010-05-02 21:29         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-03 19:01           ` Pavel Machek
2010-05-03 21:38             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-03 22:11               ` Alan Stern
2010-05-03 22:24                 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-05-02  7:01   ` Pavel Machek
2010-05-14  4:11 [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 7) Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-05-14  4:11 ` [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-05-18 13:11   ` Pavel Machek
2010-05-20  9:11     ` Florian Mickler
2010-05-20  9:26       ` Florian Mickler
2010-05-20 22:18         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-21  6:04           ` Florian Mickler
2010-05-27 15:41           ` Pavel Machek

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