This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    printk: Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify()

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     printk-fix-scheduling-while-atomic-problem-in-console_cpu_notify.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 85eae82a0855d49852b87deac8653e4ebc8b291f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:35:59 -0700
Subject: printk: Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify()

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>

commit 85eae82a0855d49852b87deac8653e4ebc8b291f upstream.

The console_cpu_notify() function runs with interrupts disabled in the
CPU_DYING case.  It therefore cannot block, for example, as will happen
when it calls console_lock().  Therefore, remove the CPU_DYING leg of
the switch statement to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Guillaume Morin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/printk.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1172,7 +1172,6 @@ static int __cpuinit console_cpu_notify(
        switch (action) {
        case CPU_ONLINE:
        case CPU_DEAD:
-       case CPU_DYING:
        case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
        case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
                console_lock();


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.4/printk-fix-scheduling-while-atomic-problem-in-console_cpu_notify.patch
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