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From: cernekee@gmail.com (Kevin Cernekee)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: console_cpu_notify can cause scheduling BUG during CPU hotplug
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:18:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimPHaiiiVC_A6jtUtaa_pYJuhepYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB604C7.8090305@codeaurora.org>

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Michael Bohan <mbohan@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> I was curious if this scenario was accounted for in the design of the
> console CPU notifier. One workaround for this problem is to remove CPU_DEAD
> from the possible actions in console_cpu_notify(). In fact, v1-v4 of the
> patch above did not have CPU_DEAD, CPU_DYING or CPU_DOWN_FAILED in the list
> of actions. I wasn't able to track down why the other cases were added in
> the final patch.

Here is the background information on the CPU_{DEAD,DYING,DOWN_FAILED} cases:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/29/65

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-25 23:33 console_cpu_notify can cause scheduling BUG during CPU hotplug Michael Bohan
2011-04-26  0:18 ` Kevin Cernekee [this message]
2011-04-26  5:58   ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-04-26 21:06     ` Michael Bohan
2011-04-27  7:38       ` Borislav Petkov
2011-04-27 22:12         ` Michael Bohan
2011-04-30  8:38           ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-09 20:39             ` Michael Bohan

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