Re: cpu_init is called during resume

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 18:28:39 EST


Hi!

> >cpu_init() is called during resume, at time when GFP_KERNEL is not
> >available. This silences warning, and adds few small cleanups.
> >
>
> I presume this is resume from disk. If you're doing resume from RAM,
> all the CPU-related stuff should already be allocated, unless you're
> bringing up a new CPU which wasn't previously there, right?

We are doing virtual cpu hotplug/unplug... actually suspend to RAM
*and* disk. Just try it :-).

> And wouldn't making these allocations atomic make real CPU hotplug (ie,
> on an active, running system) more likely to fail? This code doesn't
> deal with allocation failure very elegantly.

Hmm... well hopefully free_pages_min will cover this case.
Pavel
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