Re: [2.6.17-rc5-mm2] crash when doing second suspend: BUG in arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c:174

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:26, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > It's probably safter to say "In the suspend/resume case, they may well
> > be." It's not inconceivable that a system could be suspended, a faulty
> > cpu replaced with another, and the system resumed. Hotplugging ought to
> > handle that nicely.
>
> I think, in general, changing the hardware configuration of the system
> while its suspend is not supported.  But perhaps someone who actually
> knows about this PM stuff has a more authoritative view...

In general, you're right because we don't have perfect hardware hotplugging 
yet. But cpu hotplugging is one area we do have, so it should work. (I ought 
to be one of those people, because I'm the author of the Suspend2 
patches :) ... not that I'm claiming complete knowledge of all things related 
to suspending! )

Regards,

Nigel
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