Re: ACPI crash on lid close - SMP race?

Matthew Garrett
2008-11-11T01:34:04Z

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:27:14AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> well, there is a bug report for this problem:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11259

I'll give the noirqbalance case a go.

> and there are some bug reports for a similar problem (system crashes on
> lid close if _DOS=1, but on a UP platform).
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6001#c49

I think the _DOS=1 case is somewhat different. There you'd expect
significantly more system BIOS code to be run, and that's going to stand
a much higher chance of causing unfortunate interactions with however
Linux has set up the graphics.

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