linux-kernel - Re: regression: fireware causes oops during system

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Date:	Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:58:08 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
CC:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: regression: fireware causes oops during system

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> commit 831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69
>>> tree b0334921341f8f1734bdd3243de76d676329d21c
>>> parent 787d2214c19bcc9b6ac48af0ce098277a801eded
>>> author Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:03:35 -0700
>>> committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...dy.linux-foundation.org> Tue, 17
>>> Jul 2007 10:23:02 -0700
>>>
>>>     Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
> 
> Well, I don't think so.
> 
> nodemgr_host_thread() calls set_freezable() as it should.

This commit is certainly OK, as it should merely preserve status quo.
Also note that Pavel wrote in his initial post that the problem became
apparent way after -rc1.  Full quote:

| I noticed empty suspend stopped working around 2.6.23-rc4, and it is
| still present in 2.6.23-rc6. To reproduce
|
| swapoff -a
| echo disk > /sys/power/state
| echo disk > /sys/power/state
|
| Unsetting
|
| CONFIG_IEEE1394=y
|
| solves the problem.

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Stefan Richter
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