Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the system resume process

From	Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the system resume process
Date	2016-02-26 07:30 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 05:01:12PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Peter.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 03:24:30PM +0800, Peter Chen wrote:
> > > You might want to complain to the block-layer people about this.  I 
> > > don't know if anything can be done to fix it.
> > > 
> > > Or maybe flush_work and flush_delayed_work can be changed to avoid 
> > > blocking if the workqueue is frozen.  Tejun?
> > > 
> > 
> > I have a patch to show the root cause of this issue.
> > 
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg136815.html
> 
> I don't get it.  Why would it deadlock?  Shouldn't things get rolling
> once the workqueues are thawed?
> 

Hi Tejun,

The workqueue writeback can't be thawed due to driver's resume
(dpm_complete) is lock nested, and can't be finished.

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Best Regards,
Peter Chen

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Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the system  resume process Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@gmail.com> - 2016-02-23 04:30 +0100
  Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the  system resume process Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@gmail.com> - 2016-02-23 11:00 +0100
  Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the  system resume process Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-02-23 16:40 +0100
    Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the  system resume process Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@gmail.com> - 2016-02-24 08:30 +0100
      Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the  system resume process Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-02-25 23:10 +0100
        Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the  system resume process Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@gmail.com> - 2016-02-26 07:30 +0100
          Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the  system resume process Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-03-02 17:10 +0100
            Re: Freezable workqueue blocks non-freezable workqueue during the  system resume process Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-03-03 10:40 +0100

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