Consider PlatformThread::Join() to be blocking IO.

chrome/browser/geolocation/geolocation_provider.cc

Index: chrome/browser/geolocation/geolocation_provider.cc
diff --git a/chrome/browser/geolocation/geolocation_provider.cc b/chrome/browser/geolocation/geolocation_provider.cc
index 97e9049defad902ef6ac7447ebd1b9bce8f86092..4afad12c52b0ab855b8f50ac601a24c417a9b04d 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/geolocation/geolocation_provider.cc
+++ b/chrome/browser/geolocation/geolocation_provider.cc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "chrome/browser/geolocation/geolocation_provider.h"
 
 #include "base/singleton.h"
+#include "base/thread_restrictions.h"
 #include "chrome/browser/geolocation/location_arbitrator.h"
 
 // This class is guaranteed to outlive its internal thread, so ref counting
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ bool GeolocationProvider::RemoveObserver(GeolocationObserver* observer) {
 void GeolocationProvider::OnObserversChanged() {
   DCHECK(OnClientThread());
   if (observers_.empty()) {
+    // http://crbug.com/66077

[Evan Martin, 2010/12/10 21:43:04]

Can you include a short summary here?  (So people don't need to click this link
every time they look at this code...)

+    base::ThreadRestrictions::ScopedAllowIO allow_io;
     Stop();
   } else {
     if (!IsRunning()) {