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Subject: Re: softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
	tasks
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:59:17 GMT
> Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=82a1fcb90287052aabfa235e7ffc693ea003fe69
> > Commit:     82a1fcb90287052aabfa235e7ffc693ea003fe69
> > Parent:     d0d23b5432fe61229dd3641c5e94d4130bc4e61b
> > Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > AuthorDate: Fri Jan 25 21:08:02 2008 +0100
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > CommitDate: Fri Jan 25 21:08:02 2008 +0100
> > 
> >     softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks
> 
> One of my test boxes (an 8-way x86_64 software-development thing from Intel
> - I'm not sure what's inside it) no longer powers itself off when I run `halt
> -pfn'.
> 
> During bisection I found two different problems.  Sometimes the machine
> wouldn't power off at all.  Other times it would power off after a pause of
> around twenty seconds.
> 
> Bisection indicates that this commit is what caused the 20-second pause. 
> It could be that some later commit caused the infinity-second pause.


Does that kernel have:

commit ed50d6cbc394cd0966469d3e249353c9dd1d38b9
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date:   Sat Feb 2 00:23:08 2008 +0100

    debug: softlockup looping fix