On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:37:45PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > While testing 3.7 RC1 I discovered that invoking the function orderly_poweroff() > from an interrupt context will trigger an ASSERT(). This was not the case till > recently. The comment preceding the orderly_poweroff() function claims that this > function can be invoked from any context and in the current Hyper-V util driver, > we support host-driven orderly shut down of the guest by invoking this > orderly_poweroff() function in the context of the message callback. This code has > been working for a very long time and it is broken now. Is my assumption that > orderly_poweroff() could be invoked from the interrupt context a wrong assumption? You can't call orderly_poweroff() from interrupt context. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
