On 03/05, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Basically the same as > http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/drivers-platform-x86-thinkpad_acpic-move-hotkey_thread_mutex-lock-after-set_freezable.patch. > I think Artem's patch is a little better. There doesn't appear to be > any locking protocol for tpacpi_lifecycle.
Which seems to have the same problem, hotkey_kthread() still calls kthread_freezable_should_stop() under hotkey_thread_mutex. IOW, we have two try_to_freeze's here, the patch moves only one of them outside of the hotkey_thread_mutex. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
