On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:43:32AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > o drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c, power_saving_thread(). > > Looks like a kthread that does idle injection. Currently, RCU > sees it as not a quiescent state. Would it kill these guys to > put in a comment or two about what this is for??? > > So adding rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() here might > actually fix a bug, though it is not clear how long this thing > actually runs. If only for a few milliseconds, no harm done. >
> o drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c, clamp_thread(). > > Looks similar to power_saving_thread(), but for thermal control. > Probably short term, shouldn't be a problem either way. > There's patches somewhere that make that go-away https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/56 Jacob was going to look at that.
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