Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755308AbXJJFcZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:32:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751871AbXJJFcR (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:32:17 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48827 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751820AbXJJFcQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:32:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:29:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Thomas Gleixner cc: Greg KH , Olof Johansson , Greg KH , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Theodore Ts'o" , Zwane Mwaikambo , Justin Forbes , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Chris Wedgwood , Domenico Andreoli , Mark Lord , Randy Dunlap , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , Dave Jones , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Chuck Wolber , stable@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Kevin Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20071008180406.052382073@mini.kroah.org> <20071008180633.GJ7627@kroah.com> <20071009151702.GA19209@lixom.net> <20071009222003.GA21228@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1225 Lines: 36 On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Fair enough. OTOH for the affected PPC users it's a regression and that's > what I'm concerned of. Hmm.. I just got the appended (Kevin, better not just send me email, other people can be interested too): From: Kevin : Subject: Segmentation Fault > > I just installed Linux Kernel 2.6.23 and am getting a Segmentation Fault > upon exit (init 0). > > Code: Bad EIP Value > EIP: [<00007825>] 0x7825 SS:ESP 0068:e7305de8 > /etc/rc.d/rc.0: Line 261: 2796 Segmentation Fault /sbin/poweroff > > I'm running Slackware 12.0 and while there's not a lot of information there, it might still mean that there may be some issues on x86 too at the shutdown path. Kevin: can you get the rest of the message? The kernel should have printed out much more than just those two lines (there should have been a stack trace and register state (often most easily captured simply with a digital camera) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/