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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/power/disk.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/power/disk.c b/kernel/power/disk.c index 8b15f777010a..05b64790fe83 100644 --- a/kernel/power/disk.c +++ b/kernel/power/disk.c @@ -456,7 +456,17 @@ static int software_resume(void) int error; unsigned int flags; - mutex_lock(&pm_mutex); + /* + * name_to_dev_t() below takes a sysfs buffer mutex when sysfs + * is configured into the kernel. Since the regular hibernate + * trigger path is via sysfs which takes a buffer mutex before + * calling hibernate functions (which take pm_mutex) this can + * cause lockdep to complain about a possible ABBA deadlock + * which cannot happen since we're in the boot code here and + * sysfs can't be invoked yet. Therefore, we use a subclass + * here to avoid lockdep complaining. + */ + mutex_lock_nested(&pm_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); if (!swsusp_resume_device) { if (!strlen(resume_file)) { mutex_unlock(&pm_mutex); |
