From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933597AbXGQPqt (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:46:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934188AbXGQPmo (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:42:44 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47489 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934684AbXGQPmm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:42:42 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: "Aaron Durbin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:42:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "Yinghai Lu" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org References: <20070716180019.GA5112@google.com> <86802c440707170740i30ed2110l130dafbec8e4d4a5@mail.gmail.com> <8f95bb250707170808n19799ba5l3acd13e2ee7e0f08@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8f95bb250707170808n19799ba5l3acd13e2ee7e0f08@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707171742.39067.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:08:19 Aaron Durbin wrote: > This is true if SMIs are still flowing, and the SMI handler correctly handles > the reset properly. I have seen cases where the SMI handler is broken which > causes the system to perpetually hang. Ah, that is the rationale that was missing in the first mail ... Ok that makes some sense. Is it a common issue? -Andi