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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-02 11:24:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-02 11:24:44 -0800 |
| commit | bd1d462e13b278fc57752d0b9b15040e60e561a0 (patch) | |
| tree | e2fdf1c18a93aab02830bcb8a5db8cdddfbb63a8 /kernel/power/user.c | |
| parent | d5c38b137ac8a6e3dbed13bc494d60df5b69dfc4 (diff) | |
| parent | 62aa2b537c6f5957afd98e29f96897419ed5ebab (diff) | |
Merge 3.3-rc2 into the driver-core-next branch.
This was done to resolve a merge and build problem with the
drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c file.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/power/user.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/power/user.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c index 6b1ab7a8852..e5a21a85730 100644 --- a/kernel/power/user.c +++ b/kernel/power/user.c @@ -274,6 +274,15 @@ static long snapshot_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, swsusp_free(); memset(&data->handle, 0, sizeof(struct snapshot_handle)); data->ready = 0; + /* + * It is necessary to thaw kernel threads here, because + * SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE may be invoked directly after + * SNAPSHOT_FREE. In that case, if kernel threads were not + * thawed, the preallocation of memory carried out by + * hibernation_snapshot() might run into problems (i.e. it + * might fail or even deadlock). + */ + thaw_kernel_threads(); break; case SNAPSHOT_PREF_IMAGE_SIZE: |