kernel_optimize_test/arch/i386
Eric W. Biederman 6e3fbee5f1 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Don't IPI to offline cpus on shutdown
So why are we calling smp_send_stop from machine_halt?

We don't.

Looking more closely at the bug report the problem here
is that halt -p is called which triggers not a halt but
an attempt to power off.

machine_power_off calls machine_shutdown which calls smp_send_stop.

If pm_power_off is set we should never make it out machine_power_off
to the call of do_exit.  So pm_power_off must not be set in this case.
When pm_power_off is not set we expect machine_power_off to devolve
into machine_halt.

So how do we fix this?

Playing too much with smp_send_stop is dangerous because it
must also be safe to be called from panic.

It looks like the obviously correct fix is to only call
machine_shutdown when pm_power_off is defined.  Doing
that will make Andi's assumption about not scheduling
true and generally simplify what must be supported.

This turns machine_power_off into a noop like machine_halt
when pm_power_off is not defined.

If the expected behavior is that sys_reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF)
becomes sys_reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT) if pm_power_off is NULL
this is not quite a comprehensive fix as we pass a different parameter
to the reboot notifier and we set system_state to a different value
before calling device_shutdown().

Unfortunately any fix more comprehensive I can think of is not
obviously correct.  The core problem is that there is no architecture
independent way to detect if machine_power will become a noop, without
calling it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:50 -08:00
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boot x86: fix "make install" target 2006-01-10 21:09:19 -08:00
crypto [CRYPTO] aes-i586: Remove unused variable ls_tab 2006-01-09 14:15:53 -08:00
kernel [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Don't IPI to offline cpus on shutdown 2006-01-11 19:04:50 -08:00
lib
mach-default
mach-es7000 [PATCH] ES7000 platform update 2005-10-30 17:37:12 -08:00
mach-generic
mach-visws
mach-voyager
math-emu
mm [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging code 2006-01-11 08:14:16 -08:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
pci [PATCH] PCI: update Toshiba ohci quirk DMI table 2006-01-09 12:13:21 -08:00
power [PATCH] x86: add MCE resume 2005-11-07 07:53:30 -08:00
defconfig
Kconfig [PATCH] hrtimer: introduce ktime_t time format 2006-01-10 08:01:37 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu [PATCH] Base support for AMD Geode GX/LX processors 2006-01-06 08:33:38 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: x86 parts 2006-01-06 08:33:36 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: drop vmlinux dependency from "make install" 2006-01-09 20:36:48 +01:00
Makefile.cpu [PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks 2006-01-08 20:14:02 -08:00