Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: (POWER) Replace pseries_notify_cpuidle_add call with a elegant notifier to fix lockdep problem in start_secondary

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:49:38 +1000

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 10:47 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> Any reason why you don't do cpuidle_disable_device() when the
> CPU is going offline and cpuidle_enable_device() when it's coming
> back ?
> 
> I'm applying the patch for now since it fixes a real problem but
> if the above makes sense, please send a followup fix.

No I'm not ... it's damaged in some odd ways (some whitespace
missing here or there among others). Please resend a fixed one.

Cheers,
Ben.