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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:20:02 -0700
From:	Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, len.brown@...el.com,
	pavel@....cz, rjw@...k.pl, dzickus@...hat.com, msb@...omium.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	olofj@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resume

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:40:01 -0700
> Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Andrew Morton
>> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> This call actually happens on "exit from suspend" or "entry into
>> resume" processing so
>> how about something like:
>>
>> On exit from suspend we force an offline->online transition on the boot CPU so
>> that the PMU state that was lost while in suspended state gets set up properly
>> for the boot CPU.  This information is required for restarting the NMI watchdog.
>
> OK, let's use that.
>
>> > Also, this is all dead code if CONFIG_SUSPEND=n, so how about
>> >
>
> You had no comments about this?
Looks good to me.

Thanks for including this in the mm tree!

-- 
Sameer
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