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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, daniel.blueman@gmail.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/9] x86, ioapic: fix potential resume deadlock
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 00:09:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110520000903.2d8d05a4@katamari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110518233157.385970138@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>

On Wed, 18 May 2011 16:31:31 -0700
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
> 
> Fix a potential deadlock when resuming; here the calling function
> has disabled interrupts, so we cannot sleep.
> 
> Change the memory allocation flag from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> TODO: We can do away with this memory allocation during resume by
> reusing the ioapic suspend/resume code that uses boot time allocated
> buffers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>     # v2.6.39

This is happening on 2.6.38 as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 23:31 [patch 0/9] x86: ioapic cleanups Suresh Siddha
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 1/9] x86, ioapic: fix potential resume deadlock Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20  4:09   ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2011-05-20 13:36   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Fix " tip-bot for Daniel J Blueman
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 2/9] x86, ioapic: allocate ioapic_saved_data early Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:37   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Allocate " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 3/9] x86, ioapic: use ioapic_saved_data while enabling intr-remapping Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:37   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Use " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 4/9] x86, ioapic: remove duplicate code for saving/restoring RTEs Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:38   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Remove " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 5/9] x86, ioapic: add struct ioapic Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:38   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Add " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 6/9] x86, ioapic: conslidate ioapic_saved_data[] into " Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:39   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Consolidate ioapic_saved_data[] into 'struct ioapic' tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 7/9] x86, ioapic: consolidate mp_ioapics into struct ioapic Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:39   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Consolidate mp_ioapics[] into 'struct ioapic' tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 8/9] x86, ioapic: consolidate gsi routing info into struct ioapic Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:40   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Consolidate gsi routing info into 'struct ioapic' tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-05-18 23:31 ` [patch 9/9] x86, ioapic: consolidate mp_ioapic_routing[] into struct ioapic Suresh Siddha
2011-05-20 13:40   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, ioapic: Consolidate mp_ioapic_routing[] into 'struct ioapic' tip-bot for Suresh Siddha

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