Re: 2.6.25-rc5: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

Andrew Morton
2008-03-11T03:01:19Z

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10123
> > > Subject : No power-off / reboot with 2.6.25-rcX (up to -rc3)
> > > kernels
> > > Submitter : Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
> > > Date : Tue May 22 22:47:54 2007 -0400
> > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/10/340
> > > Handled-By : Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
> > > Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/10/91
> >
> > FWIW, I have this same problem.
>
> There's a newer patch in
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> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/10/343
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> which I think should replace the 2008/3/10/91 one, but which needs
> testing.
>
> Jeff, does that one ("keep rd->online and cpu_online_map in sync") fix the
> problem for you?
>
> (Andrew - I saw you say that the older patch fixed things for you, does
> the newer one - on its own - also do so?)
>

Yes, it does.