Re: [PATCH 0/4] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix CPU online handlingrelated to cpusets

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 21:07:57 EST


On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 23:39 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > I don't see why not. Presumably no CPUs will be added or removed while
> > the system is asleep.
>
> ACPI explicitly forbids that level of hardware reconfiguration in a sleep
> state (even in S4), AFAICS. Still, people may try to do that ...

I'm ok with breaking that :-) If its really really important to someone
we (him most likely) could fix it by detecting the topology changed over
the suspend and do a fixup. Assuming it actually gets that far.

Srivatsa, wanna give this (the proposal to not modify cpusets on
CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) a try?


--
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/