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From: khilman@deeprootsystems•com (Kevin Hilman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC/PATCH] arm: oprofile: remove locking from suspend/resume
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:44:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739xnjyuq.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100519070459.GA22212@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (Russell King's message of "Wed\, 19 May 2010 08\:04\:59 +0100")

Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm•linux.org.uk> writes:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:13:01PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Since oprofile is a sysdev, its suspend/resume methods are called with
>> interrupts disabled.  Using a mutex (which might sleep) in this atomic
>> context is not safe.
>
> It isn't a sysdev anymore.  Suggest you take a look at the ARM tree once
> in a while.

Indeed, I see it is fixed already there.

Sorry for the noise,

Kevin

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-19  0:13 [RFC/PATCH] arm: oprofile: remove locking from suspend/resume Kevin Hilman
2010-05-19  7:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-05-19 22:44   ` Kevin Hilman [this message]

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