Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 10/39] [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Dont IPI to offline cpus on shutdown | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:02:01 -0700 |
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Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> writes:
> * Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) 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.
The comprehensive fix for 2.6.15.x is to remove -p from /sbin/halt if your machine has this problem. I have just updated the bugzilla entry so we can remember this.
There are no security implications to this, either since this is a crash when attempting to power off the machine.
Eric
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