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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:21:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> cc: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>, Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>, Mark Lord <mlord@...ox.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>, stable@...nel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:17:02AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:06:33AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > From: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> > > > > > > commit 4047727e5ae33f9b8d2b7766d1994ea6e5ec2991 from upstream > > > > > > We need to disable all CPUs other than the boot CPU (usually 0) before > > > attempting to power-off modern SMP machines. This fixes the > > > hang-on-poweroff issue on my MythTV SMP box, and also on Thomas Gleixner's > > > new toybox. > > > > Paul Mackerras has reported crashes when rebooting some older ppc64 > > systems due to this patch. > > > > See http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-October/043969.html. > > Has anything been done in mainline to possibly fix this? > > If not, I think we'll leave it in, as it does solve a number of reported > problems. Wrapping it into a #ifdef CONFIG_X86 would be sufficient. tglx - 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/
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