>>> Something like this will close the window to right up until the point >>> where the other CPUs have 'almost' called halt(). >> >> Now I took a look at context... why not simply use same trick swsusp >> uses, and do a hot unplug of all cpus at the end of shutdown? > .. > > That's the current existing workaround for this bug, > but not everybody has cpu hotplug in their config, > and this bug should still get fixed. Ok... alternative solution is to keep cpu hotplug always enabled. Suspend & hibernation seems to need it, anyway, and dupliating code between cpu hotplug and shutdown does not look _that_ attractive. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html