On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 06:41:47 PM Colin Cross wrote:
> Joseph Lo <[email protected]> reported a lockup on Tegra20 caused
> by a race condition in coupled cpuidle.  When two or more cpus
> enter idle at the same time, the first cpus to arrive may go to the
> ready loop without processing pending pokes from the last cpu to
> arrive.
> 
> This patch adds a check for pending pokes once all cpus have been
> synchronized in the ready loop and resets the coupled state and
> retries if any cpus failed to handle their pending poke.
> 
> Retrying on all cpus may trigger the same issue again, so this patch
> also adds a check to ensure that each cpu has received at least one
> poke between when it enters the waiting loop and when it moves on to
> the ready loop.
> 
> Reported-by: Joseph Lo <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Joseph Lo <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <[email protected]>

Still stable material I suppose?

Queued up for 3.12, thanks!

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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