Re: [PATCH 4/6 v2] PM: Limit race conditions between runtime PM andsystem sleep (v2)

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 03:54:20PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2011/6/29 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>:
> 
> > One of the roles of the PM core is to prevent different PM callbacks
> > executed for the same device object from racing with each other.
> > Unfortunately, after commit e8665002477f0278f84f898145b1f141ba26ee26
> > (PM: Allow pm_runtime_suspend() to succeed during system suspend)
> > runtime PM callbacks may be executed concurrently with system
> > suspend/resume callbacks for the same device.
> (...)
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> 
> A quick question: is there some specific reason why this patch should
> not go into the 3.0.y stable releases? We are trying to produce
> a runtime PM system of product quality based on 3.0.y and we've
> already had to backport this patch ourselves to get things stable.
> 
> We have also backported:
> PM: Introduce generic "noirq" callback routines for subsystems (v2)
> PM / Runtime: Update documentation of interactions with system sleep
> PM / Runtime: Add new helper function: pm_runtime_status_suspended()
> 
> And now it seems to be sufficient to get this thing going.

So, what specific git commits do you want to see in the 3.0-stable
tree, and in what order should they be applied in?

thanks,

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/