On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 08:29:54AM +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 trees 3.5.y, 3.4.y

Ah, ok, that makes more sense, I shouldn't have responded so quickly.

But, you copied a non-public mailing list, and you should still notify
the people who originally signed off on this patch to ensure they don't
object to it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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