From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760351AbYDNPJf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:09:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753788AbYDNPJ1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:09:27 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47745 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754178AbYDNPJ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:09:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:08:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Bongani Hlope cc: Alexey Dobriyan , Andrew Morton , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML Subject: Re: Shutdown and Reboot Regression 2.6.25-rc[78] In-Reply-To: <200804120905.50745.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> Message-ID: References: <200804112241.44626.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> <20080411214257.GA4979@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <200804120905.50745.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Bongani Hlope wrote: > > it is 100% reproducible with rc7 and rc8, I haven't come across the bug with > rc9 though.. Argh, I think I see that's going on. I switched the order of some operations without thinking about it, and moved a test outside of the console lock. Since you cannot see this on -rc9, can you go back to -rc8 and test this patch (instead of the revert) on top of that? I'm pretty sure this is it, but it would be good to have it confirmed. Linus