linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpu/hotplug: handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:15:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Lianwei Wang <lianwei.wang@...il.com>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, oleg@...hat.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu/hotplug: handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Lianwei Wang wrote:
> Yes. In our project, there is a kernel driver which register a pm
> notifier. On some conditions this pm notifier will return an error and
> abort the suspend process. The counter will be unbalanced in case it
> happened.

So what? You wreckaged your driver, so you fix it and be done with it.