linux-kernel - Re: try_to_freeze() called with IRQs disabled on ARM

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Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:13:14 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: try_to_freeze() called with IRQs disabled on ARM

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:08:23AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > How does that solve it?  IRQs disabled from assembly, which doesn't touch
> > the preempt counter.
> 
> Then test something else, be it the IRQ mask bit or some other context.

Thereby entirely preventing threads from being frozen?  You're asking
me to effectively disable suspend/resume on an architecture where it's
heavily used.  That's not a good idea, and would be an out-right
regression.
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