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SubjectRe: [linux-pm] Is it supposed to be ok to call del_gendisk while userspace is frozen?
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Matt Reimer wrote:

> So how does the attached patch look?
>
> Matt
>
>
> From 20d8340471eb05aa54af1349f4ddccecd9c230c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matt Reimer <mreimer@sdgsystems.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:36:54 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] fs: prevent hang on suspend/resume when MMC/SD card present
>
> Devices can come and go from the MMC/SD bus during suspend or resume,
> when the writeback thread is frozen, resulting in a hang. So thaw the
> writeback thread in del_gendisk() to prevent the hang.

I don't see anything wrong with the patch itself, but I dislike the
description. Devices can come and go from any hotpluggable bus, not
just MMC/SD. That just happens to be the first place the problem was
observed.

Alan Stern



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