On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 of March 2008, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > I just thought of another problem. At the point where > > > > local_irq_disable() is called, in between device_suspend() and > > > > device_power_down(), it is possible in a preemptible kernel that > > > > another task is holding dpm_list_mtx and is in the middle of updating > > > > the list pointers. This would mess up the traversal in > > > > device_power_down(). > > > > > > > > I'm not sure about the best way to prevent this. Is it legal to call > > > > unlock_mutex() while interrupts or preemption are disabled? > > > > > > Well, I think it is, but I'm not sure how that can help. > > > > > > To prevent the race from happening, we can lock dpm_list_mtx before switching > > > interrupts off in kernel/power/main.c:suspend_enter() and analogously in > > > kernel/power/disk.c . > > > > That's right. And once interrupts are turned off you should unlock > > dpm_list_mtx again, in case a noirq method wants to unregister a > > device. > > Why would a noirq method want to do that? IMO, it's not a big deal if noirq > methods are not allowed to unregister devices. Okay, that's fine. It keeps things simple. > > Hence my question: Is it legal to call unlock_mutex() while interrupts are > > disabled? > > Well, I suspect that will confuse lockdep quite a bit. Otherwise, I don't see > a problem with it (it's just changing the value of a shared variable after > all). Then you have your answer. Perhaps have device_suspend() exit with the mutex held and have device_resume() release it (with appropriate handling for error situations, of course). Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
