[dm-devel] Soft lockup during suspend since ~2.6.36 [bisected]

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:30, Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org> wrote:
> Does your kernel have preemption enabled?

CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set

> If not, does the following patch fix the problem?

Yep, looks good so far (at least in my virtualized test environment):
2.6.39-rc4 with your patch applied survived 100 suspend/resume cycles
w/o locking up.

Just out of curiosity: Was this a new issue in 2.6.39-rc4 ord could
this fix be backported to 2.6.38?

Thanks,
Thilo