From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / scan: Change ordering of locks for device hotplug
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:17:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1377908257.10300.896.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1752041.76DW3TEE1A@vostro.rjw.lan>
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 23:15 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> Change the ordering of device hotplug locks in scan.c so that
> acpi_scan_lock is always acquired after device_hotplug_lock.
>
> This will make it possible to use device_hotplug_lock around some
> code paths that acquire acpi_scan_lock safely (most importantly
> system suspend and hibernation). Apart from that, acpi_scan_lock
> is platform-specific and device_hotplug_lock is general, so the
> new ordering appears to be more appropriate from the overall
> design viewpoint.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Thanks,
-Toshi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-31 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-29 21:12 [PATCH 0/3] ACPI / hotplug / mm: Rework mutual exclusion between hibernation and memory hotplug Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-29 21:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / scan: Change ordering of locks for device hotplug Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-31 0:17 ` Toshi Kani [this message]
2013-08-29 21:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] PM / hibernate: Create memory bitmaps after freezing user space Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] PM / hibernate / memory hotplug: Rework mutual exclusion Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-31 0:23 ` Toshi Kani
2013-08-31 0:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-08-31 0:35 ` Toshi Kani
2013-08-31 0:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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