On Monday, 18. June 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
>
> At present, if a user mode helper is running while
> usermodehelper_pm_callback() is executed, the helper may be frozen and the
> completion in
> call_usermodehelper_exec() won't be completed until user space processes
> are thawed. As a result, the freezing of kernel threads may fail, which is
> not desirable.
>
> Prevent this from happening by introducing a counter of running user mode
> helpers and allowing usermodehelper_pm_callback() to succeed for
> action = PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE or action = PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE only if
> there are no helpers running. [Namely, usermodehelper_pm_callback() waits
> for at most RUNNING_HELPERS_TIMEOUT for the number of running helpers to
> become zero and fails if that doesn't happen.]
>
> Special thanks to Uli Luckas <[email protected]> for reviewing the previous
> versions of this patch and for very useful comments.
>
Acked-by: Uli Luckas <[email protected]>
Regards,
Uli
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