Re: [PATCH 6/6]suspend/resume SMP support

[Li Shaohua]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 06:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
> fbcon is trying to call kmalloc before the slab system is initialised. 
> It would be best to fix that within fbcon.
This solves the problem too.

> Well as the comment says, if this CPU isn't online yet, and if the system
> has not yet reached SYSTEM_RUNNING state then we bale out of the printk
> because this cpu's per-cpu resources may not yet be fully set up.
After the CPU is offline (we are doing CPU hotplug). Its per-cpu
resources like kmalloc also aren't initialized. This is in
SYSTEM_RUNNING state too, so the system state doesn't matter. Removing
the system state check seems better than fixing the fbcon driver to me.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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