Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: coupled: fix sleeping while atomic in cpu notifier

From: Colin Cross
Date: Tue Aug 07 2012 - 20:54:19 EST


On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Colin Cross wrote:
>> The cpu hotplug notifier gets called in both atomic and non-atomic
>> contexts, it is not always safe to lock a mutex. Filter out all events
>> except the six necessary ones, which are all sleepable, before taking
>> the mutex.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Has this been applied already?

It's not in Linus' tree, and I haven't heard anything from Len.
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