Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: coupled: fix sleeping while atomic in cpu notifier

[Shilimkar, Santosh]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The cpu hotplug notifier gets called in both atomic and non-atomic
> contexts, it is not always safe to lock a mutex.  Filter out all events
> except the six necessary ones, which are all sleepable, before taking
> the mutex.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Agree.
Have you observed any lock-up ?

For that patch itself, Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx>
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