From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: sleep_on() DIE DIE DIE (was Re: [patch] Fix suspend of the kseriod thread)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:44:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2798.1028115892@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020731121054.A26396@ucw.cz>
vojtech@suse.cz said:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:07:21AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > vojtech@suse.cz said:
> > > Ok. Is the use in drivers/input/serio.c buggy?
> >
> > If it matters that the thread can miss wakeup events and sleep
> > indefinitely while there's a 'SERIO_RESCAN' event pending, then
> > yes it looks buggy.
<...>
> Thanks for the explanation. Yes, this could happen.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
Even people who can be assumed to have a clue can make the mistake of using
sleep_on() in spite of the fact that it's almost impossible to use
correctly.
It can be removed from 2.5 without much pain -- half the drivers are broken
anyway due to the removal of cli(). I'm running a kernel with sleep_on()
removed quite happily.
At Stephen's request, I'll wait a couple of days for ext3 to remove all use
of sleep_on() before submitting the patch. NFS wants fixing too, but other
than that the breakage seems remarkably slight.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 10:26 [patch] Small input fixes for 2.5.29 [1/2] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 10:29 ` [patch] Small input fixes for 2.5.29 [2/2] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 13:22 ` [patch] Input cleanups for 2.5.29 [1/2] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 13:23 ` [patch] Input cleanups for 2.5.29 [2/2] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 20:17 ` [patch] Fix suspend of the kseriod thread Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 20:18 ` [patch] Remove superfluous code that snuck back in PPC merge Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 21:57 ` [patch] Fix suspend of the kseriod thread Russell King
2002-07-30 22:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-31 9:55 ` David Woodhouse
2002-07-31 9:58 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-31 10:07 ` David Woodhouse
2002-07-31 10:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-31 11:44 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-07-30 21:09 ` [patch] Input cleanups for 2.5.29 [2/2] Greg KH
2002-07-30 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 21:35 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 21:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 22:02 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 21:38 ` Brad Hards
2002-07-30 21:26 ` Brad Hards
2002-07-30 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 21:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-30 21:47 ` Brad Hards
2002-07-30 22:02 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-30 22:05 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 10:49 ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-01 12:17 ` Sean Neakums
2002-07-30 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 21:55 ` Ben Pfaff
2002-07-30 22:03 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-31 13:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-31 12:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-07-31 14:01 ` extended integer types (was Re: [patch] Input cleanups for 2.5.29 [2/2]) Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-30 21:39 ` [patch] Input cleanups for 2.5.29 [2/2] Vojtech Pavlik
2002-07-30 22:46 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-07-30 21:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-07-30 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
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