Re: shut down from CPU 0 [regression]

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Dan Carpenter" <error27@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6660316cb7a1a2c59a73a52870490c0f782f45c1
>
> Even though you should be able to call ACPI power down from either
> CPU, I've seen some BIOSes that implement it wrong.  That's why the
> code was there.
> For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189052

I don't understand the complaint we should be forcing the action to
happen on the boot cpu from another place in the code.

Eric
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