Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Freezer, CPU hotplug, x86 Microcode: Fix task freezing failures | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:17:54 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 18:53 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Yes, agreed. And more: I'm still trying to understand why a test case > like that is relevant and needs to be fixed at all. Let me re-formulate > the question: what real world scenario(s) does the case of hibernating > _while_ off- and onlining cores cover? Or are you simply doing kernel > resiliency testing and thought that offlining cores while hibernating > might make sense?
It can happen, therefore it will. We had better deal with it.
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