On 25.07.2017 21:47, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Helge Deller wrote: >> Some machines can't power off the machine, so disable the lockup detectors >> to avoid this watchdog BUG to show up every few seconds: >> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [systemd-shutdow:1] > > I don't think HPPA is the only architecture that has this problem, Maybe. I haven't heard of others yet, probably because most other architectures do power off themselves, so they won't see this problem. > so isn't there a generic solution? Or: is it time to add one? Sure, you are welcome to test, post and discuss patches upstream if you like. It's not a very critical issue, so I can wait with pushing my patch. Helge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html