Re: [PATCH 001/001] mmcblk: Fix deadlock when cleanup is calledfrom resume

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 00:58:32 EST


On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:10:11 -0700
san@xxxxxxxxxx (San Mehat) wrote:

>
> When CONFIG_UNSAFE_RESUME is used, we may need to cleanup
> (and call kthread_stop) when threads are still frozen. To fix this
> deadlock, push cleanup off to a work-queue.
>
> Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>

I appreciate patches, but sending me something based on 2.6.21 is
hardly helpful. This particular problem was solved over a year ago in
mainline.

Rgds
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