linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-mmotm1230 - BUG during 'shutdown -h'

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Date:	Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:36:31 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-mmotm1230 - BUG during 'shutdown -h'

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:43:35 +1030, Rusty Russell said:
> On Friday 02 January 2009 23:22:18 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > 100% repeatable.  I haven't had a chance to bisect and track this down yet,
> > though most of the obvious suspects are in either origin.patch or linux-next.patch
> > so a bisect of -mmotm probably won't tell us much.
> 
> kernel/workqueue.c: In function 'wq_cpu_map':
> kernel/workqueue.c:94: warning: pointer type mismatch in conditional expression
> 
> That's a problem for a start.  Looks like a merge bug.  Does removing the &
> from in front of cpu_populated_map help?

Fixing that did fix the compiler warning.  However, it didn't fix the
blowup during shutdown.  I'll dig into it more later this weekend.

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