Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: moved hotkey_thread_mutex lock afterset_freezable()

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:22:02 +0400
Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> set_freezable() checks freezing during which no locks should be held.
> hotkey_thread_mutex lock should be moved closer to where it is actually needed.
> 

Thanks.

When fixing a bug, we always like to see a full description of that bug
so we can better work out which kernel versions need the fix.

Did you actually hit a lockup because of this?  Or was it just from
code inspection?  Or ...  ?
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