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SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] driver core merge for 3.3
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Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 02:11, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm. I think this is the cause of one of the suspend/resume problems I'm seeing:
>>
>>   Device 'machinecheck3' does not have a releae() function, it is
>> broken and must be fixed
>>
>> that's the WARN_ON() in drivers/base/core.c (line 192), and it comes
>> from disable_nonboot_cpus() doing the whole device_unregister() thing.
>>
>> Afaik, it's arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c.
>
> I guess this kind of warning just did not exist for the old sysdev
> devices. The 'machinecheck' devices are DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct device,
> mce_device) devices, so we will probably just add a dummy release
> function, which might not fix the problem you are seeing.
>
> Maybe you can check if the suspend problem goes away if you disable
> CONFIG_X86_MCE?

Hello,

three days ago I also reported about a suspend/resume problem and
disabling CONFIG_X86_MCE also helps on my machine, although I did not see
the above warning in my logs.

Dirk
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