Re: [RFC 2/2] PM: Lock all devices during suspend/hibernate

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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Wednesday, 1 August 2007 16:11, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > > > +static DECLARE_RWSEM(device_registration_rwsem);
> > > 
> > > Is it only intended for device registration, or can it be used in some other
> > > code paths too?
> > 
> > The patch uses it only for registration, since that's where it is 
> > needed.  I suppose it could be used on other paths as well, if anybody 
> > wanted to make something else mutually exclusive with suspend.  
> > (Although then it probably ought to be renamed...)
> 
> That was exactly my thought.  Why don't we give it a more general name from
> the start?

Like pm_suspend_rwsem?  And change the accessor functions to 
pm_block_suspend() and pm_allow_suspend()?  (Although it applies to 
quiescing as well as suspending.)

Alan Stern

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