On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, 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.
>
> 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.
Acked-by: Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu>
Although I would have preferred it if you spelled "it's" and "won't"
with apostrophes in the first paragraph. Without the apostrophes,
"its" is a possessive pronoun (meaning "something belonging to it")
and "wont" is a noun (meaning "habit").
Alan Stern
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