Re: [PATCH 1/1] thinkpad-acpi: kill hotkey_thread_mutex

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > hotkey_kthread() does try_to_freeze() under hotkey_thread_mutex.
> >
> > We can simply kill this mutex, hotkey_poll_stop_sync() does not need
> > to serialize with hotkey_kthread(). When kthread_stop() returns the
> > thread is already dead, it called do_exit()->complete_vfork_done().
> >
> > Reported-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> 
> Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>

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