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SubjectRe: [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: fix potential suspend blocking issue
On 03/05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>
> On Tue, 05 Mar 2013, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> > This mutex seems wrong. Its held the entire time the kthread is
> > running. I think its used to synchronize on the exit of the kthread. A
> > completion would more appropriate in that case.
>
> From the top of the driver source:
>
> /* Acquired while the poller kthread is running, use to sync start/stop */
> static struct mutex hotkey_thread_mutex;

I simply can't understand what this "sync start/stop" means...

Ignoring hotkey_kthread(), the only user is

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);
}
}

And I simply do not understand the comment. This thread has already exited
when kthread_stop() returns (OK, it can be running do_exit() paths but this
doesn't matter). So this mutex_lock() buys nothing afaics.

As for serializing with hotkey_poll_setup/etc, looks like this code relies
on hotkey_mutex.

So I think hotkey_thread_mutex can be simply removed?

Oleg.



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