On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Oliver Neukum <oneu...@suse.de> wrote:
>
> No, the problem is autoresume.
>
> Suppose we have a device with two interface. Interface A be usbnet; interface 
> B
> something you page on. Now consider that you can only resume both interfaces
> and this is (and needs to be) done synchronously.
>
> Now we can have this code path:
>
> autoresume of device -> resume() -> kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) ->
> VM layer decides to start paging out -> IO to interface B -> autoresume of 
> device
> --> DEADLOCK

Currently scsi disk can only be runtime suspended when the device is not
opened, so are you sure that the paging out above can cause IO on a suspend
usb mass storage disk which is not mounted or opened by utility now?


Thanks,
--
Ming Lei
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to