From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755976Ab2JVXd4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:33:56 -0400 Received: from mail-da0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:33156 "EHLO mail-da0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754827Ab2JVXdy (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:33:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:33:51 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, jasowang@redhat.com Subject: Re: 3.7 RC1 Message-ID: <20121022233351.GA6589@kroah.com> References: <1350949065-24655-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1350949065-24655-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:37:45PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > While testing 3.7 RC1 I discovered that invoking the function orderly_poweroff() > from an interrupt context will trigger an ASSERT(). This was not the case till > recently. The comment preceding the orderly_poweroff() function claims that this > function can be invoked from any context and in the current Hyper-V util driver, > we support host-driven orderly shut down of the guest by invoking this > orderly_poweroff() function in the context of the message callback. This code has > been working for a very long time and it is broken now. Is my assumption that > orderly_poweroff() could be invoked from the interrupt context a wrong assumption? Can you check 3.7-rc2? If that also fails, care to do a 'git bisect' from 3.6 to 3.7-rc1 to find the problem patch? thanks, greg k-h