From: Christian Borntraeger <linux-kernel@borntraeger.net>
To: len.brown@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Thinkpad Suspend Powersave: Fix ACPI's GFP_KERNEL allocations in contexts that can sleep
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:57:34 +0100
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, volker.braun@physik.hu-berlin.de
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> > This fixes a problem originally reported by Christian Borntraeger where
> >  during the wakeup from a suspend-to-ram, several "sleeping function
> >  called from invalid context" warning messages are issued.  Unlike a
> >  previous patch which attempted to solve this problem, we avoid doing
> > an GFP_ATOMIC kmalloc() except when explicitly necessary.

Len,
you indicated that you are going to address the S3 sleeping function issue 
after the development for 2.6.12 has started with an invasive but correct 
fix. 
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=acpi4linux&m=110978961501752&w=2)
Can you give an overview about your progress?

cheers

Christian
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