From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Subject: Re: [Bug #13819] system freeze when switching to console Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:16:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20090908161657.0f21c7fb@jbarnes-g45> References: <2ehA7xoGvXL.A.4PB.3eBpKB@chimera> <1252427375.14735.130.camel@rc-desk> <1252431375.14735.139.camel@rc-desk> <1252449461.30150.61.camel@rc-desk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1252449461.30150.61.camel@rc-desk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reinette chatre Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Eric Anholt , "Ma, Ling" , "bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org" On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:37:41 -0700 reinette chatre wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > so this is TOTALLY UNTESTED! > > I understand that the discussion is still going on whether this is the > right thing to do. Even so, I thought you may like to know that with > this patch I can again switch to console, back again, hibernate, and > shut down .. all without crashing my system. > > Tested-by: Reinette Chatre > > Thank you very much! Do you see "hardware wedged" messages in your log after using Linus's patch? That's what I'd expect... ah no I see we don't call the routine that requires interrupts in that path like I thought. So Linus's patch is fine with me. Acked-by: Jesse Barnes Sorry Linus, you were right; I was making this more complicated than it had to be. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center