Re: [RC][PATCH -mm] PM: Prevent frozen user mode helpers from failing the freezing of tasks

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Jun 24 2007 - 13:06:33 EST


Hi!

> > > Special thanks to Uli Luckas <u.luckas@xxxxxxx> for reviewing the previous
> > > versions of this patch and for very useful comments.
> > ...
> > > Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> >
> > Eh, not sure this header is worth anything. Sometimes I'm lazy and
> > stop when I see first problem.
> >
> > > switch (action) {
> > > case PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE:
> > > case PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE:
> > > usermodehelper_disabled = 1;
> > > - return NOTIFY_OK;
> > > + retval = wait_event_timeout(running_helpers_waitq,
> > > + atomic_read(&running_helpers) == 0,
> >
> > Are you sure here? What happens when atomic variable changes between
> > the atomic_read and the function call?
>
> Er, this is a macro. :-)
>
> In fact we rely only on atomic_read(&running_helpers) being still zero after
> helper_finished() has woken us up, but I think that's acceptable.
>
> IOW, if the wait_event_timeout() returns with retval different from zero, this
> means that atomic_read(&running_helpers) returned zero at one point after
> we'd set usermodehelper_disabled, which is enough. OTOH, if it doesn't

Ok, can you write short comment explaining that? /* We have set
usermodehelper_disabled, so any new usermode helpers are not a problem
*/.

Pavel
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