ACPI/CPUIDLE: prevent setting pm_idle to NULL
pm_idle_save resp. pm_idle_old can be NULL when the restore code in acpi_processor_cst_has_changed() resp. cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler() is called. This can set pm_idle unconditinally to NULL, which causes the kernel to panic when calling pm_idle in the x86 idle code. This was covered by an extra check for !pm_idle in the x86 idle code, which was removed during the x86 idle code refactoring. Instead of restoring the pm_idle check in the x86 code prevent the acpi/cpuidle code to set pm_idle to NULL. Reported by: Dhaval Giani http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/2/309 Based on a debug patch from Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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