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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2011-11-21 20:32:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2011-11-21 20:32:23 (GMT) |
| commit | 8a32c441c1609f80e55df75422324a1151208f40 (patch) | |
| tree | 73884b06cc2db3ea155af9a88815bb5105a4473e /drivers/platform | |
| parent | a0acae0e886d44bd5ce6d2f173c1ace0fcf0d9f6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8a32c441c1609f80e55df75422324a1151208f40.tar.xz | |
freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop()
Writeback and thinkpad_acpi have been using thaw_process() to prevent
deadlock between the freezer and kthread_stop(); unfortunately, this
is inherently racy - nothing prevents freezing from happening between
thaw_process() and kthread_stop().
This patch implements kthread_freezable_should_stop() which enters
refrigerator if necessary but is guaranteed to return if
kthread_stop() is invoked. Both thaw_process() users are converted to
use the new function.
Note that this deadlock condition exists for many of freezable
kthreads. They need to be converted to use the new should_stop or
freezable workqueue.
Tested with synthetic test case.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/platform')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c index 7b82868..4b11fc9 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c @@ -2456,8 +2456,9 @@ static int hotkey_kthread(void *data) u32 poll_mask, event_mask; unsigned int si, so; unsigned long t; - unsigned int change_detector, must_reset; + unsigned int change_detector; unsigned int poll_freq; + bool was_frozen; mutex_lock(&hotkey_thread_mutex); @@ -2488,14 +2489,14 @@ static int hotkey_kthread(void *data) t = 100; /* should never happen... */ } t = msleep_interruptible(t); - if (unlikely(kthread_should_stop())) + if (unlikely(kthread_freezable_should_stop(&was_frozen))) break; - must_reset = try_to_freeze(); - if (t > 0 && !must_reset) + + if (t > 0 && !was_frozen) continue; mutex_lock(&hotkey_thread_data_mutex); - if (must_reset || hotkey_config_change != change_detector) { + if (was_frozen || hotkey_config_change != change_detector) { /* forget old state on thaw or config change */ si = so; t = 0; @@ -2528,10 +2529,6 @@ exit: static void hotkey_poll_stop_sync(void) { if (tpacpi_hotkey_task) { - if (frozen(tpacpi_hotkey_task) || - freezing(tpacpi_hotkey_task)) - thaw_process(tpacpi_hotkey_task); - kthread_stop(tpacpi_hotkey_task); tpacpi_hotkey_task = NULL; mutex_lock(&hotkey_thread_mutex); |