Re: Warning during suspend with MS-7310 mainboard

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:37:22AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
 > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:16:29 am Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:38:22AM -0500, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
 > >  > I'll look into it.
 > >  > 
 > >  > First time I've had this bug reported, though.
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > It's happening because the suspend code runs with interrupts disabled,
 > > and the powerpc workaround we do in the cpufreq suspend hook
 > > calls the drivers ->get method.
 > > 
 > > powernow-k8's ->get does an smp_call_function_single
 > > which needs interrupts enabled
 > 
 > Yeah, I was confused: my patch changed set_cpus_allowed_ptr() to
 > an smp_call_function.  If the latter is a bad idea with irqs disabled, the
 > former certainly was...

Right, the only reason reverting your change 'fixes' the problem is
that we don't have a BUG() in set_cpus_allowed_ptr to check for interrupts
being disabled.

hmm, does adding an equivalent check make sense?
cpufreq seemed to cope just fine when we used set_cpus_allowed_ptr,
but we might have just got lucky. As we were suspending in this path,
interaction from the scheduler is minimal. Other callers might not
be so lucky?

	Dave