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SubjectRe: Problems with SMP & ACPI powering off
Mark Lord wrote:
> Question: do we disable all CPUs except 0 when doing ACPI power off?
>
> Background:
> I have a machine here dedicated to running MythTV.
> It powers up to record, and then sets the RTC alarm for next time
> and powers down again in between recordings.
>
> It has an Intel Core2duo E6300 CPU, currently on an ICH8 motherboard.
> Previously it was on a completely different (vendor,bios,...) ICH7
> motherboard.
>
> In both cases, "halt -p" sometimes fails to actually turn off the power,
> which means that it later then fails to "turn on" to record again.
>
> Annoying.
>
> This is a 32-bit kernel/runtime, with full ACPI (not APM) kernel support
> enabled.
>
> So I'm wondering if it may be due to the old SMP-poweroff bogeyman ?
>
> For now, I've hardcoded a cpu_down(1) into the poweroff code,
> and we'll see if that helps or is merely redundant.
>
> But I do wonder where else to look for a cause?
>
> Two different boards, vendors, BIOSs, same CPU chip. Same problem.

Oh, and two different power-supplies, too.

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