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Date:	Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:05:46 +0800
From:	Danny Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
To:	Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com>
CC:	lenb@...nel.org, ming.m.lin@...el.com, robert.moore@...el.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: don't cond_resched() when irq_disabled or 	in_atomic

On 12/04/2009 02:50 PM, Justin Mattock wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@...hat.com>  wrote:
>> commit 8bd108d adds preemption point after each opcode parse, then
>> a sleeping function called from invalid context bug was founded
>> during suspend/resume stage. this was fixed in commit abe1dfa by
>> don't cond_resched when irq_disabled. But recent commit 138d156 changes
>> the behaviour to don't cond_resched when in_atomic. This makes the
>> sleeping function called from invalid context bug happen again, which
>> is reported in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/1/371.
>>
>> The fix is to cond_sched() only when preemptible, which means not in
>> irq_disabled or in_atomic.
>>
>> Reported-and-bisected-by: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>   include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h b/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
>> index 9d7febd..5b415ee 100644
>> --- a/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
>> +++ b/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
>> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static inline void *acpi_os_acquire_object(acpi_cache_t * cache)
>>   #include<linux/hardirq.h>
>>   #define ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() \
>>         do { \
>> -               if (!in_atomic_preempt_off()) \
>> +               if (preemptible()) \
>>                         cond_resched(); \
>>         } while (0)
>>
>> --
>> 1.6.5.2
>>
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>
> looks good
> kernel compiled without any issues,
> echo mem>  /sys/power/state
> reported no warning message.
>
> Also if you don't mind add:
> Reported-and-bisected-by: Justin P. Mattock<justinmattock@...il.com>
>
Sure, sorry for I had missed thread for

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14483

> Id like to get some kind of credit for this b*tch.
>

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