Re: Dumb question: BKL on reboot ?

[Hannes Reinecke]

Dave Hansen wrote:
[ .. ]
> Or, are you saying that a CPU could have the BKL, and have
> stop_this_cpu() called on it?  I guess we could add
> release_kernel_lock() to stop_this_cpu().
Exactly what happened here. CPU#1 entered sys_reboot, got BKL and 
prepared to stop. It will never release BKL, leaving a nice big window 
for CPU#0 to deadlock.

releasing BKL before calling do_machine_restart seems to do the trick, 
though.

Cheers,

Hannes
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