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Message-ID: <2380177.4Omy8JvF8m@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:38:14 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	" Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	" H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "intel_idle: mark states tables with __initdata tag"

Hi,

On Thursday, January 09, 2014 02:20:22 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday, January 09, 2014 03:30:26 PM Jiang Liu wrote:
> > This reverts commit 9d046ccb98085f1d437585f84748c783a04ba240.
> > 
> > Commit 9d046ccb98085 marks all state tables with __initdata, but
> > the state table may be accessed when doing CPU online, which then
> > causing system crash as below:
> 
> Uh, sorry for that - it most likely got missed since I tested it
> together with intel_idle_cpu_init() removal patches (they are in
> Rafael's PM tree now).
> 
> Anyway, better than reverting it altogether would be to fix it by
> backporting the following patch:
> 
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/20/372
> 
> Could you please try to solve the issue this way?

No, it's too late for that as far as 3.13 is concerned.

I have the patch above queued up for 3.14, though, so do you think that the
commit being reverted here can be safely re-applied on top of it?

Rafael

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