Messages in this thread | | | From | Bongani Hlope <> | Subject | Re: Shutdown and Reboot Regression 2.6.25-rc[78] | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:42:48 +0200 |
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On Friday 11 April 2008 22:58:12 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Bongani Hlope wrote: > > I found a regression in version 2.6.25-rc7, which causes my computer not > > to shutdown or reboot. I get a complete lock up (no keyboard and Sys-Rq) > > just before it normally shuts down the alsa service. > > > > I did a git bisect and it points to this reversion: > > [266c2e0abeca649fa6667a1a427ad1da507c6375] Make printk() console > > semaphore accesses sensible > > Interesting. That commit _should_ have just moved code around with no > actual semantic changes. > > Can you verify that undoing just that one commit makes current git (-rc9) > work for you? Ie just try a > > git revert 266c2e0abeca649fa6667a1a427ad1da507c6375 > > on top of the current tree. I just want to check, because even after > looking at that diff again, I'm not seeing what it could actually change. >
After about 4 restarts and 4 reboots, 2.6.25-rc9 seems to work fine with and without the revert. I'll do some more testing. The assembly output files for kernel/printk.c don't seem that different between rc9 and rc7. I'll see what else I can test.
Thanx
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