> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Stern [mailto:st...@rowland.harvard.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 11:30 PM
> To: Rafael J. Wysocki
> Cc: Liu, Chuansheng; linux...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / Runtime: Fix the twice judgement in
> rpm_suspend/resume()
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 01:48:18 AM Chuansheng Liu wrote:
> > >
> > > In function rpm_suspend/resume(), when going into the for(;;),
> > > the pre-condition judgement has been done, and the variable
> runtime_status
> > > are always protected by &power.lock, so it is not necessary to judge
> > > them again before unlock_irq &power.lock in for(;;).
> > >
> > > This patch clean them up.
> >
> > Well, I don't really think this fixes anything. Yes, we may save one check
> > here and there, but the current code follows the wait_event() convention.
OK, thanks.
>
> Indeed, this patch introduces a race. If runtime_status changes from
> RPM_SUSPENDING and power.wait_queue is signalled in between the test at
> the end of the loop and the prepare_to_wait() call, the loop will never
> end.
Checking the race case, it should not happen?
Updating runtime_status and wake_up wait_queue are protected by power.lock.
spin_lock(&power.lock)
...
__update_runtime_status()
...
wake_up_all(&dev->power.wait_queue)
...
spin_unlock(&power.lock)
>
> Alan Stern
>
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
> >
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng....@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> > > 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> > > index 3148b10..32d6497 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> > > @@ -377,14 +377,14 @@ static int rpm_suspend(struct device *dev, int
> rpmflags)
> > > for (;;) {
> > > prepare_to_wait(&dev->power.wait_queue, &wait,
> > > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> > > - if (dev->power.runtime_status != RPM_SUSPENDING)
> > > - break;
> > >
> > > spin_unlock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
> > >
> > > schedule();
> > >
> > > spin_lock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
> > > + if (dev->power.runtime_status != RPM_SUSPENDING)
> > > + break;
> > > }
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