On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 04:22:13PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > This patch (as1519) fixes a bug in the block layer's disk-events > polling. The polling is done by a work routine queued on the > system_nrt_wq workqueue. Since that workqueue isn't freezable, the > polling continues even in the middle of a system sleep transition. > > Obviously, polling a suspended drive for media changes and such isn't > a good thing to do; in the case of USB mass-storage devices it can > lead to real problems requiring device resets and even re-enumeration. > > The patch fixes things by creating a new system-wide, non-reentrant, > freezable workqueue and using it for disk-events polling. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks! -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
