linux-kernel - Re: Shutdown and Reboot Regression 2.6.25-rc[78]

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Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:05:50 +0200
From:	Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@...b.co.za>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Shutdown and Reboot Regression 2.6.25-rc[78]

On Friday 11 April 2008 23:42:57 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:41:44PM +0200, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> > I found a regression in version 2.6.25-rc7, which causes my computer not
> > to shutdown or reboot. I get a complete lock up (no keyboard and Sys-Rq)
> > just before it normally shuts down the alsa service.
> >
> > I did a git bisect and it points to this reversion:
> > [266c2e0abeca649fa6667a1a427ad1da507c6375] Make printk() console
> > semaphore accesses sensible
>
> Is it 100% reproducable? I mean sometimes I also have complete lockup right
> after one of eth interfaces shutdown during shutdown sequence. And it's
> also recent.
>
> But it triggers ~1 time in 10 subjectively..

it is 100% reproducible with rc7 and rc8, I haven't come across the bug with 
rc9 though..


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