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USB: update to Documentation

this mentions a new deadlock due to advanced power management.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Oliver Neukum il y a 17 ans
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@@ -436,7 +436,12 @@ post_reset; the USB core guarantees that this is true of internal
 suspend/resume events as well.
 
 If a driver wants to block all suspend/resume calls during some
-critical section, it can simply acquire udev->pm_mutex.
+critical section, it can simply acquire udev->pm_mutex. Note that
+calls to resume may be triggered indirectly. Block IO due to memory
+allocations can make the vm subsystem resume a device. Thus while
+holding this lock you must not allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL or
+GFP_NOFS.
+
 Alternatively, if the critical section might call some of the
 usb_autopm_* routines, the driver can avoid deadlock by doing: