Re: [PATCH] exit: skip IRQ disabled warning during power off

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 04/04, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>
> Preferably this would be fixed so that nobody calls here with irqs off.

This is not my area, I can't help, but do you understand why sys_reboot()
needs to call do_exit() ?

Say, why the stupid patch below is wrong?

Oleg.

diff --git a/kernel/reboot.c b/kernel/reboot.c
index ec087827c85c..0d0c8aa3ffcd 100644
--- a/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -777,12 +777,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(reboot, int, magic1, int, magic2, unsigned int, cmd,
 
 	case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT:
 		kernel_halt();
-		do_exit(0);
+		for (;;) cpu_relax();
 
 	case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF:
 		kernel_power_off();
-		do_exit(0);
-		break;
+		for (;;) cpu_relax();
 
 	case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_RESTART2:
 		ret = strncpy_from_user(&buffer[0], arg, sizeof(buffer) - 1);