On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Lianwei Wang <lianwei.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <raf...@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Lianwei Wang <lianwei.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This makes pm notifier PREPARE/POST symmetrical: if PREPARE
>>> fails, we will only undo what ever happened on PREPARE.
>>>
>>> It fixes the unbalanced cpu hotplug enable in cpu pm notifier.
>>
>> Can you please describe the problem you're trying to address in a bit
>> more detail?
>
> It is described in another patch, and it is a common issue. I fixed
> the similar issue several times, all because that the CPU_POST_SUSPEND
> notifier callback is called without call CPU_SUSPEND_PREPARE notifier
> callback before. Something is DO in PM_XXX_PREPARE and UNDO in
> POST_XXX. If we don't DO it in XXX_PREPARE then we don't need to UNDO
> it in  PM_POST_XXX.
>
> Here is the link for the unbalanced cpu hotplug enable case:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/6/61 .
>
> Thanks,
> Lianwei

Did anyone from the maintainer review the patch yet?

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