Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuidle : fix random hangs with intel_idle

From: Hugh Dickins <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:23:26 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:09:41 +0100 Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > The cpuidle consolidation inverts the local_irq_enable for
> > the poll_idle function with CPU_RELAX.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]>
> > Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <[email-masked]>
> 
> So this needs to go into Rob's tree.  Maybe after Hugh verifies that it
> fixes his problem.

Yes, Daniel got me to try it offline before he posted it.

Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <[email-masked]>

Personally, I'd recommend including it even before it gets into Rob's
tree (where it may well be improved upon first): it does a lot to
improve the usability of linux-next.

Hugh