On Monday, 18. June 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At present, if a user mode helper is running while > usermodehelper_pm_callback() is executed, the helper may be frozen and the > completion in > call_usermodehelper_exec() won't be completed until user space processes > are thawed. As a result, the freezing of kernel threads may fail, which is > not desirable. > > Prevent this from happening by introducing a counter of running user mode > helpers and allowing usermodehelper_pm_callback() to succeed for > action = PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE or action = PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE only if > there are no helpers running. [Namely, usermodehelper_pm_callback() waits > for at most RUNNING_HELPERS_TIMEOUT for the number of running helpers to > become zero and fails if that doesn't happen.] > > Special thanks to Uli Luckas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for reviewing the previous > versions of this patch and for very useful comments. >
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