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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 10:58:19 +1200
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how?
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:50:35AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

    How do you do this when the process in the D state is holding the BKL?

On ia32:

        outb(0xfe, 0x64);

I have a command-line proglet for doing this, and also a patch to add
to SysReq is people really want such a thing.



  --cw