Re: [PATCH 6/6]suspend/resume SMP support

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 06:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
> fbcon is trying to call kmalloc before the slab system is initialised. 
> It would be best to fix that within fbcon.
This solves the problem too.

> Well as the comment says, if this CPU isn't online yet, and if the system
> has not yet reached SYSTEM_RUNNING state then we bale out of the printk
> because this cpu's per-cpu resources may not yet be fully set up.
After the CPU is offline (we are doing CPU hotplug). Its per-cpu
resources like kmalloc also aren't initialized. This is in
SYSTEM_RUNNING state too, so the system state doesn't matter. Removing
the system state check seems better than fixing the fbcon driver to me.

Thanks,
Shaohua

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux