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From: Pavel Machek on 4 Mar 2010 15:20
Hi!

> > My thought exactly. This is the only approach that also solves the
> > following race:
> >
> > A driver is unloaded at the same time as a suspend starts.
> >
> > The writeback thread gets frozen.
> >
> > Then before the rmmod thread is frozen, it calls del_gendisk.
> >
> > Delaying things by means of a workqueue (or the equivalent) might also
> > work, but it doesn't seem as safe. For example, some important
> > writebacks might end up getting delayed until too late.

Delaying writebacks during sleep should be ok... That's why we do
sync() after userspace is frozen -- nothing really important should be
waiting for writeback after that point.
Pavel
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