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    PM / Sleep: Fix race between CPU hotplug and freezer · 79cfbdfa
    Srivatsa S. Bhat authored
    The CPU hotplug notifications sent out by the _cpu_up() and _cpu_down()
    functions depend on the value of the 'tasks_frozen' argument passed to them
    (which indicates whether tasks have been frozen or not).
    (Examples for such CPU hotplug notifications: CPU_ONLINE, CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN,
    CPU_DEAD, CPU_DEAD_FROZEN).
    
    Thus, it is essential that while the callbacks for those notifications are
    running, the state of the system with respect to the tasks being frozen or
    not remains unchanged, *throughout that duration*. Hence there is a need for
    synchronizing the CPU hotplug code with the freezer subsystem.
    
    Since the freezer is involved only in the Suspend/Hibernate call paths, this
    patch hooks the CPU hotplug code to the suspend/hibernate notifiers
    PM_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE]_PREPARE and PM_POST_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE] to prevent
    the race between CPU hotplug and freezer, thus ensuring that CPU hotplug
    notifications will always be run with the state of the system really being
    what the notifications indicate, _throughout_ their execution time.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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