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authorPaul Parsons <lost.distance@yahoo.com>2011-05-13 02:46:03 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-05-23 12:50:43 +0200
commitfda5fe19725edd6805f2fd742235d1a0d0ba93f5 (patch)
tree86c5e5e7fe1b41ecf18233149f6a1f7a60b4cd45 /drivers/char
parent81024fc41a9353160bc445fda4f96d1aa5e82791 (diff)
apm-emulation: apm_mutex breaks ACK; remove it
apm_mutex is locked by a process (e.g. apm -s) at the start of apm_ioctl() and remains locked while pm_suspend() is called. Any subsequent process trying to ACK the suspend (e.g. apmd) is then blocked at the start of apm_ioctl(), causing the suspend to be delayed for 5 seconds in apm_suspend_notifier() while the ACK times out. In short, ACKs don't work. The driver's data structures are sufficiently protected by assorted locks. And pm_suspend() has its own mutex to prevent reentrancy. Consequently there is no obvious requirement for apm_mutex, which evolved from earlier BKL calls. So let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Paul Parsons <lost.distance@yahoo.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/apm-emulation.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/apm-emulation.c b/drivers/char/apm-emulation.c
index 45b987c9889e..548708c4b2b8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/apm-emulation.c
+++ b/drivers/char/apm-emulation.c
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ struct apm_user {
/*
* Local variables
*/
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(apm_mutex);
static atomic_t suspend_acks_pending = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static atomic_t userspace_notification_inhibit = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static int apm_disabled;
@@ -275,7 +274,6 @@ apm_ioctl(struct file *filp, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
if (!as->suser || !as->writer)
return -EPERM;
- mutex_lock(&apm_mutex);
switch (cmd) {
case APM_IOC_SUSPEND:
mutex_lock(&state_lock);
@@ -336,7 +334,6 @@ apm_ioctl(struct file *filp, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
mutex_unlock(&state_lock);
break;
}
- mutex_unlock(&apm_mutex);
return err;
}
@@ -371,7 +368,6 @@ static int apm_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
{
struct apm_user *as;
- mutex_lock(&apm_mutex);
as = kzalloc(sizeof(*as), GFP_KERNEL);
if (as) {
/*
@@ -391,7 +387,6 @@ static int apm_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
filp->private_data = as;
}
- mutex_unlock(&apm_mutex);
return as ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}