Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Mutually exclude cpu online and suspend/hibernate

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, October 13, 2011, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:12:16PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > Given that the microcode update hotplug optimization is going upstream,
> > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/13/258), we know that whether we want to call
> > it a bugfix or optimization, either way it *is* going to fix this bug.
> > And this current patchset's mutual exclusion approach was also aimed at fixing
> > the same bug since at the time it was written, discussion was still going on
> > about which solution would be better.
> 
> I hate to sound like a broken recorder but the above patch isn't
> strictly correct for hot-swap cases, right?  Let's please add
> revalidation before pushing that upstream.  Rafael, did you already
> take that patch?

No, I didn't, but I'm not sure about the x86 maintainers.

Thanks,
Rafael
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