Re: [PATCH 1/11] Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Jens,

While you're in there, :)

Could you perhaps fix this bug (below) if it still exists?

> Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:07:48 -0500
> From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
> To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
> 	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
> 	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: EIP is at device_shutdown+0x32/0x60
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> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> 
> ... < snip > ...
> 
> Greg, I don't know if this is relevant or not,
> but x86 has bugs in the halt/reboot code for SMP.
> 
> Specifically, in native_smp_send_stop() the code now uses
> spin_trylock() to "lock" the shared call buffers,
> but then ignores the result.
> 
> This means that multiple CPUs can/will clobber each other
> in that code.
> 
> The second bug, is that this code does not wait for the
> target CPUs to actually stop before it continues.
> 
> This was the real cause of the failure-to-poweroff problems
> I was having with 2.6.23, which we fixed by using CPU hotplug
> to disable_nonboot_cpus() before the above code ever got run.
> 
> Maybe it's related, maybe not.