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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cpu_init is called during resume
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 00:31:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060831223121.GG12847@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F70A4B.4090803@goop.org>

Hi!

> >cpu_init() is called during resume, at time when GFP_KERNEL is not
> >available. This silences warning, and adds few small cleanups.
> >  
> 
> I presume this is resume from disk.  If you're doing resume from RAM, 
> all the CPU-related stuff should already be allocated, unless you're 
> bringing up a new CPU which wasn't previously there, right?

We are doing virtual cpu hotplug/unplug... actually suspend to RAM
*and* disk. Just try it :-).

> And wouldn't making these allocations atomic make real CPU hotplug (ie, 
> on an active, running system) more likely to fail?  This code doesn't 
> deal with allocation failure very elegantly.

Hmm... well hopefully free_pages_min will cover this case.
								Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-31 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 13:55 cpu_init is called during resume Pavel Machek
2006-08-31 16:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-31 22:31   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-08-31 23:52     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-02 11:21       ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-03  0:00         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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