Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:22:33 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fix emergency reboot: call reboot notifier list if possible |
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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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