[PATCH] ARM: Stop secondary cpus in machine_halt()

[olof@lixom.net (Olof Johansson)]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 12:11:28AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 05:47:06PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > ARM doesn't spin down secondary cpus on halt, which results in interrupts
> > being delivered even after the "System halted" message, etc.
> > 
> > Change that to use smp_send_stop() to halt them. Also, change the
> > smp_send_stop() on ARM to not do a stack dump when stopping.
> 
> Actually, we want stack dumps - sometimes.  For instance, when we
> panic() or similar.

Do we really want the stack dumps of all cpus at panic time? They won't be
printed precisely since the IPI takes a while to make it over.

As the size of SMP systems grow, it'll also become too spammy.

Anyway, the patch only changes behaviour when the system_state is
SYSTEM_HALT, i.e. during shutdown so all other panics will still
dump stacks from all cpus.


-Olof