Re: [patch 10/39] [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Dont IPI to offline cpus on shutdown

[Chris Wright]

* Andi Kleen (ak@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 23:32, Chris Wright wrote:
> > -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > ------------------
> > 
> > So why are we calling smp_send_stop from machine_halt?
> 
> I don't think that one is really suitable for stable since it's
> a relative obscure problem and the fix is not fully clear. Also it might
> have side effects. Shouldn't be merged.

This was sent in by both Andrew and Ashok, and is upstream (although Eric
notes there's more to the comprehensive solution).  It allegedly solves:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6077

Although the reporter seems to have gone silent.  Unless there's some
compelling evidence otherwise, I'm happy to drop it.

thanks,
-chris
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