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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86, reschedule: check to see if system is shutting down
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:26:37PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Right, so this fixes this one particular case, I imagine there's tons of
> places that could go splat due to this (but don't quite yet for some
> reason).
>
> We can't go around annotating everything, nor would we want to simply
> shut up all warnings for fear of missing an actual error.
>
> Why can't the normal shut-down path use a less crazy approach to going
> down?

Well maybe it can, it's been like that way for over three years now. I'm
surprised no one ran into issues before now.

The only thing I can think that would work is stop_machine(). Pass in a
halt function and a cpumask of everyone but smp_processor_id(). That
would solve the problem, no?

Cheers,
Don


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