Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:18:14 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
       torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 10/39] [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Dont IPI to offline cpus on shutdown
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* Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 23:32, Chris Wright wrote:
> > -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > ------------------
> > 
> > So why are we calling smp_send_stop from machine_halt?
> 
> I don't think that one is really suitable for stable since it's
> a relative obscure problem and the fix is not fully clear. Also it might
> have side effects. Shouldn't be merged.

This was sent in by both Andrew and Ashok, and is upstream (although Eric
notes there's more to the comprehensive solution).  It allegedly solves:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6077

Although the reporter seems to have gone silent.  Unless there's some
compelling evidence otherwise, I'm happy to drop it.

thanks,
-chris
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