Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert"intel_idle: mark states tables with __initdata tag"

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday, January 09, 2014 02:38:14 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday, January 09, 2014 02:20:22 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thursday, January 09, 2014 03:30:26 PM Jiang Liu wrote:
> > > This reverts commit 9d046ccb98085f1d437585f84748c783a04ba240.
> > > 
> > > Commit 9d046ccb98085 marks all state tables with __initdata, but
> > > the state table may be accessed when doing CPU online, which then
> > > causing system crash as below:
> > 
> > Uh, sorry for that - it most likely got missed since I tested it
> > together with intel_idle_cpu_init() removal patches (they are in
> > Rafael's PM tree now).
> > 
> > Anyway, better than reverting it altogether would be to fix it by
> > backporting the following patch:
> > 
> > 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/20/372
> > 
> > Could you please try to solve the issue this way?
> 
> No, it's too late for that as far as 3.13 is concerned.
> 
> I have the patch above queued up for 3.14, though, so do you think that the
> commit being reverted here can be safely re-applied on top of it?

Yes, the reverted commit can be safely re-applied on top of this patch.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/