Hi,
I remember this one ...
On 6/7/07, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:26:10AM -0500, Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Hm, this doesn't apply to the 2.6.21.3 kernel.
The cpufreq patches only live in -mm as of now ...
> Can you send both patches merged together?
>
> And is the fix already in Linus's tree?