[linux-pm] [PATCH 09/10] Input: Hold wake lock while event queue is not empty.

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Feb 12 03:31:26 PST 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:49:14PM -0800, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:

>  	spin_lock(&client->buffer_lock);
> +	wake_lock_timeout(&client->wake_lock, 5 * HZ);

Why the timeout version? If your input handler vanishes for more than 5 
seconds then presumably you should be thinking about watchdoging the 
entire system.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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