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SubjectRe: [patch] fix emergency reboot: call reboot notifier list if possible
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:13:19AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> we dont call the reboot notifiers during emergency reboot mainly because
> it could be called from atomic context and reboot notifiers are a
> blocking notifier list. But actually the kernel is often perfectly
> reschedulable in this stage, so we could as well process the
> reboot_notifier_list.

My experience has been that when there has been the need to use this
facility, the kernel hasn't been reschedulable. (If it were then I'd
use "reboot -f" instead.)

If we're going to do this, can we make the new behaviour have a different
key combination so the original way remains?

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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