Hello, Please consider including upstream commit: 3dd6cb497198a0533a2530b6a345c60c9a29b9bc in the next v3.8.y release. It was included upstream as of v3.9-rc1. It has been tested and confirmed to resolve http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1180419 . commit 3dd6cb497198a0533a2530b6a345c60c9a29b9bc Author: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 23 17:42:45 2013 -0800 Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context Sincerely, Joseph Salisbury -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html