Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

From: Shaohua Li
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 22:45:24 EST


On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:12 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:59, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 03:52 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > > x86-64 has resume support. It uses 'on_each_cpu' in resume method,
> > > > which is known broken. We'd better fix it.
> > >
> > > What is broken with it?
> >
> > It's a sysdev. The resume method is invoked with interrupt disabled.
>
> But only local interrupt disabled, no?
>
> Hmm - didn't we have a WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()) in smp_call_function().
>
> Anyways, it'll probably still work for now because the system should
> be synchronized at this point.
We are using cpu hotplug framework for MP suspend/resume. When sysdev's
resume is calling, APs actually aren't up. So it actually can't work.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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