Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936289AbXFGErl (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:47:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753250AbXFGEre (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:47:34 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:42957 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753201AbXFGErd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:47:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:19:24 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, malattia@linux.it, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] bug removing ehci-hcd Message-ID: <20070607041924.GA8545@kroah.com> References: <20070529093324.92e571a0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 29 On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:26:10AM -0500, Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com wrote: > > I wasn't actually able to reproduce the bug myself, but I guess it is > pretty obvious that I shouldn't have called cpufreq_unregister_notifier > with a spinlock held. I haven't been doing this long enough to know > exactly which kernel this patch should be against, so let me know if > this ins't good. Thanks! > > > This patch (for the 2.6.21.3 kernel plus previously sent cpufreq > notifier patch) fixes a bug caused by calling > cpufreq_unregister_notifier (which can sleep) while holding a spinlock. > > Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes Hm, this doesn't apply to the 2.6.21.3 kernel. Can you send both patches merged together? And is the fix already in Linus's tree? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/