Re: suspend regression in 4.1-rc1

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 03:13:14 EST


On Mon 18-05-15 10:10:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Subject: watchdog: Fix merge 'conflict'
> >
> > Two watchdog changes that came through different trees had a non
> > conflicting conflict, that is, one changed the semantics of a variable
> > but no actual code conflict happened. So the merge appeared fine, but
> > the resulting code did not behave as expected.
>
> Ok, I see that people are still discussing this, but I'll apply it
> as-is since I want to get rc4 out the door, and I guess people can
> tweak this if there's anything else we want to do longer-term.

The final patch from Peter has a typo. Without the following the system
deadlocks obviously:
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