Re: Dumb question: BKL on reboot ?

[David S. Miller]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:29:18 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Where exactly does the rebooting CPU get stuck in machine_restart()?  If
> someone has done lock_kernel() with local interrupts disabled then yes,
> it'll deadlock.  But that's unlikely?  Confused.

In fact I think that's illegal and we should bug check
such a state.
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