[patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs

Greg KH
2007-10-08T18:35:25Z

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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>

commit 4047727e5ae33f9b8d2b7766d1994ea6e5ec2991 from upstream

We need to disable all CPUs other than the boot CPU (usually 0) before
attempting to power-off modern SMP machines. This fixes the
hang-on-poweroff issue on my MythTV SMP box, and also on Thomas Gleixner's
new toybox.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/sys.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/cn_proc.h>
#include <linux/getcpu.h>
#include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>

#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
@@ -865,6 +866,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_halt);
void kernel_power_off(void)
{
kernel_shutdown_prepare(SYSTEM_POWER_OFF);
+ disable_nonboot_cpus();
printk(KERN_EMERG "Power down.\n");
machine_power_off();
}

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