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SubjectRe: [patch] Fix suspend of the kseriod thread
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vojtech@suse.cz said:
> Ok. Is the use in drivers/input/serio.c buggy?

If it matters that the thread can miss wakeup events and sleep indefinitely
while there's a 'SERIO_RESCAN' event pending, then yes it looks buggy.

serio_thread() serio_rescan()
-------------- --------------

serio_handle_events();
serio->event |= SERIO_RESCAN;
wake_up(&serio_wait);
sleep_on(&serio_wait);

...sleeps...

If both serio_thread() and serio_rescan() hold the BKL you're OK. It looks
like serio_rescan() doesn't, though.

> What should be it replaced with?

In general, the response 'anything but sleep_on' is considered appropriate.
Try wait_event().

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dwmw2


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