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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-22 00:06:51 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-22 00:06:51 -0400
commit8b53b57576292b92b27769f9e213df19b6e57786 (patch)
treecd851ce4fa71b2653f120d7f11a9c6cbcf311b19 /Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
parentab7e79243746e2a9c5f00243e60108189c44c9eb (diff)
parent38cc1c3df77c1bb739a4766788eb9fa49f16ffdf (diff)
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat
Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -436,7 +436,12 @@ post_reset; the USB core guarantees that this is true of internal
436suspend/resume events as well. 436suspend/resume events as well.
437 437
438If a driver wants to block all suspend/resume calls during some 438If a driver wants to block all suspend/resume calls during some
439critical section, it can simply acquire udev->pm_mutex. 439critical section, it can simply acquire udev->pm_mutex. Note that
440calls to resume may be triggered indirectly. Block IO due to memory
441allocations can make the vm subsystem resume a device. Thus while
442holding this lock you must not allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL or
443GFP_NOFS.
444
440Alternatively, if the critical section might call some of the 445Alternatively, if the critical section might call some of the
441usb_autopm_* routines, the driver can avoid deadlock by doing: 446usb_autopm_* routines, the driver can avoid deadlock by doing:
442 447