console_cpu_notify can cause scheduling BUG during CPU hotplug

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On 4/26/2011 5:48 AM, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Michael Bohan<mbohan at codeaurora.org>  wrote:
>> I was curious if this scenario was accounted for in the design of the
>> console CPU notifier. One workaround for this problem is to remove CPU_DEAD
>> from the possible actions in console_cpu_notify(). In fact, v1-v4 of the
>> patch above did not have CPU_DEAD, CPU_DYING or CPU_DOWN_FAILED in the list
>> of actions. I wasn't able to track down why the other cases were added in
>> the final patch.
>
> Here is the background information on the CPU_{DEAD,DYING,DOWN_FAILED} cases:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/29/65
That's right.
May be the change log for commit '034260d67' would have been
bit more descriptive about the CPU hot-plug events.

Regards
Santosh