Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs

Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-09T23:36:47Z

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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> > Wrapping it into a #ifdef CONFIG_X86 would be sufficient.
>
> Well, the ppc oops seems to be a ppc bug regardless.
>
> If CPU_HOTPLUG isn't defined, the thing does nothing. And if it is
> defined, I don't see why/how ppc can validly oops. So I think the first
> thing to do is to try to figure out why it oopses, not to disable it for
> ppc.

Fair enough. OTOH for the affected PPC users it's a regression and that's
what I'm concerned of.

tglx