[PATCH pm 1/2] usb_storage: don't use set_freezable_with_signal()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Oct 31 2011 - 20:37:33 EST


The current implementation of set_freezable_with_signal() is buggy and
tricky to get right. usb-storage is the only user and its use can be
avoided trivially.

All usb-storage wants is to be able to sleep with timeout and get
woken up if freezing() becomes true. This can be trivially
implemented by doing interruptible wait w/ freezing() included in the
wait condition. There's no reason to use set_freezable_with_signal().

Perform interruptible wait on freezing() instead of using
set_freezable_with_signal(), which is scheduled for removal.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---

These two patches are on top of "freezer: fix various bugs and
simplify implementation, take#2" patchset[1] and are also available in
the following git branch.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git pm-kill-freezable_with_signal

If usb-storage ppl are okay with it, I think routing this through pm
would be the easiest. Oh, and this definitely is for the next merge
window.

Thank you.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1209247

drivers/usb/storage/usb.c | 13 +++++++------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c b/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c
index c325e69..aa84b3d 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c
@@ -831,7 +831,8 @@ static int usb_stor_scan_thread(void * __us)

dev_dbg(dev, "device found\n");

- set_freezable_with_signal();
+ set_freezable();
+
/*
* Wait for the timeout to expire or for a disconnect
*
@@ -839,16 +840,16 @@ static int usb_stor_scan_thread(void * __us)
* fail to freeze, but we can't be non-freezable either. Nor can
* khubd freeze while waiting for scanning to complete as it may
* hold the device lock, causing a hang when suspending devices.
- * So we request a fake signal when freezing and use
- * interruptible sleep to kick us out of our wait early when
- * freezing happens.
+ * So instead of using wait_event_freezable(), explicitly test
+ * for (DONT_SCAN || freezing) in interruptible wait and proceed
+ * if any of DONT_SCAN, freezing or timeout has happened.
*/
if (delay_use > 0) {
dev_dbg(dev, "waiting for device to settle "
"before scanning\n");
wait_event_interruptible_timeout(us->delay_wait,
- test_bit(US_FLIDX_DONT_SCAN, &us->dflags),
- delay_use * HZ);
+ test_bit(US_FLIDX_DONT_SCAN, &us->dflags) ||
+ freezing(current), delay_use * HZ);
}

/* If the device is still connected, perform the scanning */
--
1.7.3.1

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