From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Helge Deller Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: Suspend lockup detectors before system halt Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:55:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20170725194141.GA14760@p100.box> <5403864.sYzayCyLUt@daneel.sf-tec.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Cc: James Bottomley , John David Anglin To: Rolf Eike Beer , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5403864.sYzayCyLUt@daneel.sf-tec.de> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org On 25.07.2017 21:47, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Helge Deller wrote: >> Some machines can't power off the machine, so disable the lockup detectors >> to avoid this watchdog BUG to show up every few seconds: >> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [systemd-shutdow:1] > > I don't think HPPA is the only architecture that has this problem, Maybe. I haven't heard of others yet, probably because most other architectures do power off themselves, so they won't see this problem. > so isn't there a generic solution? Or: is it time to add one? Sure, you are welcome to test, post and discuss patches upstream if you like. It's not a very critical issue, so I can wait with pushing my patch. Helge