Re: 2.6.13.2 crash on shutdown on SMP machine

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Clemens Koller wrote:

> Hello, Zwane!
> 
> > > From what i hear it's this issue;
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5203
> 
> Yes it seems to be the same issue.
> But who is Eric, mentioned in bugzilla? :-]
> If it makes sense I can test his patch while/before he is pushing
> it upstream.

Eric is 'Eric Biederman', Jeff tested his patch but there appears to be a 
failure case when there is no power management callback installed. Could 
you please test the following patch?

diff -r 3815424104b0 arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c	Sat Dec  3 07:09:38 2005
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c	Mon Dec  5 00:44:37 2005
@@ -359,6 +359,10 @@
 
 	if (pm_power_off)
 		pm_power_off();
-}
-
-
+
+	local_irq_disable();
+	if (cpu_data[0].hlt_works_ok)
+		while (1) halt();
+	while (1);
+}
+
diff -r 3815424104b0 arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c	Sat Dec  3 07:09:38 2005
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c	Mon Dec  5 00:44:37 2005
@@ -159,5 +159,9 @@
 	}
 	if (pm_power_off)
 		pm_power_off();
+
+	local_irq_disable();
+	while (1)
+		halt();
 }
 
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