On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:35, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > We currently freeze processes for suspend-to-ram, too. I guess that
> > > disable_usermodehelper is probably better and that in_suspend() should
> > > only be used for sanity checks... go with disable_usermodehelper and
> > > sorry for the noise.
> >
> > Here's another possibility: Freeze the workqueue that
> > call_usermodehelper uses (remember that code I didn't push hard enough
> > to Andrew?), and let invocations of call_usermodehelper block in
> > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. In refrigerating processes, don't choke on
>
> There may be many devices in the system, and you are going to need
> quite a lot of RAM for all that... That's why they do not queue it
> during boot, IIRC. Disabling usermode helper seems right.
Ok, what do you think about this one?
===================================================================
swsusp: disable usermodehelper after generating memory snapshot and
before resuming devices, so when device fails to resume we
won't try to call hotplug - userspace stopped anyway.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
include/linux/kmod.h | 3 +++
kernel/kmod.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
kernel/power/disk.c | 2 ++
kernel/power/swsusp.c | 1 -
4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: dtor/kernel/power/disk.c
===================================================================
--- dtor.orig/kernel/power/disk.c
+++ dtor/kernel/power/disk.c
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ int pm_suspend_disk(void)
if (in_suspend) {
pr_debug("PM: writing image.\n");
+ usermodehelper_disable();
+ device_resume();
error = swsusp_write();
if (!error)
power_down(pm_disk_mode);
Index: dtor/kernel/power/swsusp.c
===================================================================
--- dtor.orig/kernel/power/swsusp.c
+++ dtor/kernel/power/swsusp.c
@@ -853,7 +853,6 @@ static int suspend_prepare_image(void)
int swsusp_write(void)
{
int error;
- device_resume();
lock_swapdevices();
error = write_suspend_image();
/* This will unlock ignored swap devices since writing is finished */
Index: dtor/kernel/kmod.c
===================================================================
--- dtor.orig/kernel/kmod.c
+++ dtor/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ struct subprocess_info {
int retval;
};
+static int usermodehelper_disabled;
+
/*
* This is the task which runs the usermode application
*/
@@ -240,7 +242,7 @@ int call_usermodehelper(char *path, char
if (!khelper_wq)
return -EBUSY;
- if (path[0] == '\0')
+ if (usermodehelper_disabled || path[0] == '\0')
return 0;
queue_work(khelper_wq, &work);
@@ -249,6 +251,16 @@ int call_usermodehelper(char *path, char
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper);
+void usermodehelper_enable(void)
+{
+ usermodehelper_disabled = 0;
+}
+
+void usermodehelper_disable(void)
+{
+ usermodehelper_disabled = 1;
+}
+
void __init usermodehelper_init(void)
{
khelper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("khelper");
Index: dtor/include/linux/kmod.h
===================================================================
--- dtor.orig/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ dtor/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ static inline int request_module(const c
#endif
#define try_then_request_module(x, mod...) ((x) ?: (request_module(mod), (x)))
+
extern int call_usermodehelper(char *path, char *argv[], char *envp[], int wait);
extern void usermodehelper_init(void);
+extern void usermodehelper_enable(void);
+extern void usermodehelper_disable(void);
#endif /* __LINUX_KMOD_H__ */
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