Re: 2.6.25-rc5: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10123
> > > Subject		: No power-off / reboot with 2.6.25-rcX (up to -rc3)
> > > kernels
> > > Submitter	: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
> > > Date		:  Tue May 22 22:47:54 2007 -0400
> > > References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/10/340
> > > Handled-By	: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
> > > Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/10/91
> > 
> > FWIW, I have this same problem.
> 
> There's a newer patch in
> 
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/10/343
> 
> which I think should replace the 2008/3/10/91 one, but which needs 
> testing.
> 
> Jeff, does that one ("keep rd->online and cpu_online_map in sync") fix the 
> problem for you?
> 
> (Andrew - I saw you say that the older patch fixed things for you, does 
> the newer one - on its own - also do so?)
> 

Yes, it does.