Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: (POWER) Replace pseries_notify_cpuidle_addcall with a elegant notifier to fix lockdep problem in start_secondary

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun May 20 2012 - 20:49:46 EST


On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 10:47 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> Any reason why you don't do cpuidle_disable_device() when the
> CPU is going offline and cpuidle_enable_device() when it's coming
> back ?
>
> I'm applying the patch for now since it fixes a real problem but
> if the above makes sense, please send a followup fix.

No I'm not ... it's damaged in some odd ways (some whitespace
missing here or there among others). Please resend a fixed one.

Cheers,
Ben.


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