On 11/07/2013 02:37 PM, George Cherian wrote:
> Call try_to_freeze() in sleep_thread() only when its safe to sleep.
> do_read() and do_write() calls sleep_thread with lock held.
> Make sure these wont call try_to_freeze() by passing can_freeze flag
> to sleep_thread.
Thank you. This is was Alan asked for and I forgot.
You could add
|Calling try_to_freeze() with a lock hold was done since day one in
|f_mass_storage but since commit 0f9548ca1 ("lockdep: check that no
|locks held at freeze time") lockdep complains about it.
so we have an explanation why it is suddenly a bad thing.
> Signed-off-by: George Cherian <george.cher...@ti.com>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
Sebastian
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