Re: 2.6.13.2 crash on shutdown on SMP machine

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Mon Dec 05 2005 - 15:41:07 EST


On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Clemens Koller wrote:

> Hello, Guys, hello, Jeff!
>
> This issue seems to happen more than once:
>
> Jeff Collins wrote:
> > I experience a panic whenever I shut down a 4 cpu Intel PII Xeon SMP system.
>
> What panic do you get?
>
> > Linux sitka 2.6.14.3 #2 SMP Fri Dec 2 09:01:46 PST 2005 i686 unknown unknown
> > GNU/Linux
> > Base OS: Slackware 10.2
> > Kernel: 2.6.14.3 from kernel.org
> >
> > "shutdown -h now" causes the panic
> >
> > "shutdown -r now" reboots correctly.
>
> I guess it panics, too, but the reboot still works, so you just don't
> see the panic. (?)
>
> > I got the same panic when I substituted the 2.6.13 kernel.
>
> Still the same thing over here. Unfortunately, I am pretty busy with other
> work, and the affected system isn't really needed. It's an old
> Tyan Tomcat IIID Mainboard with two Pentium I MMX 200MHz CPU's.
> Theoretically I would be able to test the latest git snapshots, but currently
> it's just not possible. :-(
> Let me know if you cannot solve this issue - maybe I can spend some
> time to give some more information for debugging by the end of this week.

>From what i hear it's this issue;

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5203

Which is being looked at, feel free to chip in though.
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