linux-kernel - Re: shut down from CPU 0 [regression]

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <m1hd1bkdv7.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:20:28 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Dan Carpenter" <error27@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shut down from CPU 0 [regression]

"Dan Carpenter" <error27@...il.com> writes:

> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6660316cb7a1a2c59a73a52870490c0f782f45c1
>
> Even though you should be able to call ACPI power down from either
> CPU, I've seen some BIOSes that implement it wrong.  That's why the
> code was there.
> For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189052

I don't understand the complaint we should be forcing the action to
happen on the boot cpu from another place in the code.

Eric
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/