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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, malattia@linux.it, gregkh@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel]  [PATCH] bug removing ehci-hcd
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:19:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607041924.GA8545@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DFEF91B22ED07447AB6AA4B237F913F9524D64@ausx3mpc125.aus.amer.dell.com>

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:26:10AM -0500, Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com wrote:
> 
> I wasn't actually able to reproduce the bug myself, but I guess it is
> pretty obvious that I shouldn't have called cpufreq_unregister_notifier
> with a spinlock held.  I haven't been doing this long enough to know
> exactly which kernel this patch should be against, so let me know if
> this ins't good.  Thanks!
> 
> 
> This patch (for the 2.6.21.3 kernel plus previously sent cpufreq
> notifier patch) fixes a bug caused by calling
> cpufreq_unregister_notifier (which can sleep) while holding a spinlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@dell.com>

Hm, this doesn't apply to the 2.6.21.3 kernel.

Can you send both patches merged together?

And is the fix already in Linus's tree?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-07  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-21  2:44 [2.6.22-rc1-mm1] ehci-hcd - BUG: scheduling while atomic: rmmod/0x00000001/4568 Mattia Dongili
2007-05-25 21:40 ` Greg KH
2007-05-25 22:00   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-29 15:14     ` Stuart_Hayes
2007-05-29 16:33       ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-31 15:26         ` [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] bug removing ehci-hcd Stuart_Hayes
2007-06-07  4:19           ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-06-07  5:52             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-07  6:14               ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-07 23:16           ` Greg KH

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