hotkey_kthread() does try_to_freeze() under hotkey_thread_mutex. We can simply kill this mutex, hotkey_poll_stop_sync() does not need to serialize with hotkey_kthread(). When kthread_stop() returns the thread is already dead, it called do_exit()->complete_vfork_done(). Reported-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- x/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c +++ x/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c @@ -1965,9 +1965,6 @@ struct tp_nvram_state { /* kthread for the hotkey poller */ static struct task_struct *tpacpi_hotkey_task; -/* Acquired while the poller kthread is running, use to sync start/stop */ -static struct mutex hotkey_thread_mutex; - /* * Acquire mutex to write poller control variables as an * atomic block. @@ -2463,8 +2460,6 @@ static int hotkey_kthread(void *data) unsigned int poll_freq; bool was_frozen; - mutex_lock(&hotkey_thread_mutex); - if (tpacpi_lifecycle == TPACPI_LIFE_EXITING) goto exit; @@ -2524,7 +2519,6 @@ static int hotkey_kthread(void *data) } exit: - mutex_unlock(&hotkey_thread_mutex); return 0; } @@ -2534,9 +2528,6 @@ static void hotkey_poll_stop_sync(void) if (tpacpi_hotkey_task) { kthread_stop(tpacpi_hotkey_task); tpacpi_hotkey_task = NULL; - mutex_lock(&hotkey_thread_mutex); - /* at this point, the thread did exit */ - mutex_unlock(&hotkey_thread_mutex); } } @@ -3235,7 +3226,6 @@ static int __init hotkey_init(struct ibm mutex_init(&hotkey_mutex); #ifdef CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL - mutex_init(&hotkey_thread_mutex); mutex_init(&hotkey_thread_data_mutex); #endif -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html