On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 08:26:07AM +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
> From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]>
> 
> In the event of CPU hotplug, the kernel modifies the cpusets'
> cpus_allowed masks as and when necessary to ensure that the tasks
> belonging to the cpusets have some place (online CPUs) to run on.
> And regular CPU hotplug is destructive in the sense that the kernel
> doesn't remember the original cpuset configurations set by the user,
> across hotplug operations.
> 
> However, suspend/resume (which uses CPU hotplug) is a special case in
> which the kernel has the responsibility to restore the system (during
> resume), to exactly the same state it was in before suspend.
> 
> commit   d35be8bab9b0ce44bed4b9453f86ebf64062721e
> Author: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]>
> Date:   Thu May 24 19:46:26 2012 +0530
> 
>           CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't modify cpusets during 
> suspend/resume
> 
> Please apply this patch to the stable tree 3.0.y

Really?  Only that one tree?  What about all of the others in between
when it was applied and 3.0?

> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <[email protected]>

What about copying everyone else who worked on that original patch so
I'm sure that they are ok with this patch being backported?

thanks,

greg k-h
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