Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

Yinghai Lu
2008-02-15T02:15:00Z

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > after disable cpufreq, i got
> >
> > ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S5
> > Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
> > kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU1
> > CPU 1 is now offline
> > CPU1 is down
> > kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU2
> > CPU 2 is now offline
> > ================> hang here.
> >
> > but x86.git/mm could go through down all the cpus....
> >
> > interesting...
>
> i suspect some kobject related race, and i have the feeling this all is
> timing dependent.
>
> Andrew started seeing reboot hangs roughly around the time when the
> kobject changes went upstream. Given that x86.git had flux in that
> timeframe too i couldnt be sure what caused them.

it seems only happen
1. first hang with cpufreq enabled.
2. reboot to kernel with cpufreq disable will have problem.

wonder if different cpu freq out sync and next kernel with reboot
doesn't have cpufreq so it ....
-- with warm reset doesn't do the right job to sync freq again.

Greg,

where is patch to fix cpufreq problem?

YH