Re: x86/mce: machine check warning during poweroff

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat
<srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat
>> <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> The patch below works perfectly for me - I tested multiple CPU hotplug
>>> operations as well as multiple pm_test runs at core level. Please let me
>>> know if this solves the suspend issue as well..
>>
>> Ok, I'll try, and I bet it does.

Yup, I can suspend and resume multiple times now.

> I totally agree with you. Even I had set out to find out *exactly* what
> was going wrong. After spending significant amount of time digging through
> the code (unsuccessfully), this idea of zeroing out everything struck me
> and it worked, as expected. Yes, it is definitely important to know the
> exact issue so that we can fix the driver core and avoid other mishaps,
> but I guess finding that out is not all that simple.. as of now I am
> rather exhausted following those zillions of pointers continuously
> for the past few hours.. ;-/

Fair enough. The many layers of clever indirection are really really
nasty to follow, I agree.

                   Linus
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