Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752012AbZIHXQ6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:16:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbZIHXQ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:16:57 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-154.bluehost.com ([67.222.39.34]:51651 "HELO outbound-mail-154.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750910AbZIHXQ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:16:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=rwX4lXkn9ru8DHkG6rd8DbjeH4yS2s1D3MITbpf3kYN5GjB+BWvJbjBOWePWP+MmVozrgUkXKxZMt2h8BH53Rl+JlJm8Aw0rBvTqrZnOSezWnLl66MS5tUMDNX6FcXDg; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:16:57 -0700 From: Jesse Barnes To: reinette chatre Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Eric Anholt , "Ma, Ling" , "bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Bug #13819] system freeze when switching to console Message-ID: <20090908161657.0f21c7fb@jbarnes-g45> In-Reply-To: <1252449461.30150.61.camel@rc-desk> References: <2ehA7xoGvXL.A.4PB.3eBpKB@chimera> <1252427375.14735.130.camel@rc-desk> <1252431375.14735.139.camel@rc-desk> <1252449461.30150.61.camel@rc-desk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.17.5; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.28.251 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 33 On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:37:41 -0700 reinette chatre wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > so this is TOTALLY UNTESTED! > > I understand that the discussion is still going on whether this is the > right thing to do. Even so, I thought you may like to know that with > this patch I can again switch to console, back again, hibernate, and > shut down .. all without crashing my system. > > Tested-by: Reinette Chatre > > Thank you very much! Do you see "hardware wedged" messages in your log after using Linus's patch? That's what I'd expect... ah no I see we don't call the routine that requires interrupts in that path like I thought. So Linus's patch is fine with me. Acked-by: Jesse Barnes Sorry Linus, you were right; I was making this more complicated than it had to be. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/