Re: [PATCH] Oops and panic while unloading holder of pm_idle

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 16:41:48 EST


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, BlaisorBlade wrote:

> Alle 00:41, martedì 24 agosto 2004, Zwane Mwaikambo ha scritto:
> > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, BlaisorBlade wrote:
> > > (CC me on replies as I'm not subscribed).
> > >
> > > A short description, with my hypothesis about how the panic() happened:
> >
> > There is a short one liner for this which is already in the latest
> > kernel;
>
> Ok, fine, that's a lot better than my fix - and what about the stacking
> problem? Also there are some other drivers which could need fixing, probably
> (I've not the time now).

I don't think we should worry about the stacking problem, in fact it's not
meant to be stacked at all. Regarding other drivers, there are none that
i'm aware of that require fixing. There aren't many users of pm_idle
outside of arch/*/kernel/process.c

Thanks,
Zwane

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