linux-kernel - Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

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Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:29:48 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]


* Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com> wrote:

> Further more this can cause a deadlock since we're calling 
> get_online_cpus() from the watchdog thread's context, which is going 
> to be kthread_stop'ed from a cpu-hotplug context. This is what I think 
> was happening in the case reported by Jiri.
> 
> Please find the patch below.

thanks, and i've updated sched-devel.git.

	Ingo
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