* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: [patch] call reboot notifier list when doing an emergency reboot > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > my laptop (Lenovo T60) hangs during reboot if the shutdown notifiers are > not called. So the following command, which on other systems i use as a > quick way to reboot into a new kernel: > > echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger > > just hangs indefinitely after the kernel prints "Restarting system".
i also figured out which one of the many reboot notifiers makes the crutial difference: it's kvm_reboot(). So i think we should do the patch below - this makes reboot work even in atomic contexts. (My previous patch makes sense nevertheless, as reboot notifiers are quite useful in general, even during SysRq-b or panic reboots. For example the SATA disk caches are flushed.) I have tested this without the other kernel/sys.c patch, and this solves the hung reboot problem equally well. Ingo ---------------------> Subject: [patch] KVM: do VMXOFF upon reboot From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> my laptop's BIOS apparently gets confused if the kernel tries to reboot without first turning VT context off, which results in a hung (emergency-)reboot. So make sure this happens, right before we reboot. ( NOTE: this is a dual-core system, but only the core where the BIOS executes seems to be affected - the other core can have an active VT context just fine - so we dont have to risk reboot robustness by doing a CPU cross-call in the emergency reboot handler. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c | 8 ++++++++ arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c @@ -318,6 +318,14 @@ void machine_shutdown(void) void machine_emergency_restart(void) { + unsigned long ecx = cpuid_ecx(1); + + /* + * Disable any possibly active VT context (if VT supported): + */ + if (test_bit(5, &ecx)) /* has VT support */ + asm volatile (".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xc4"); /* vmxoff */ + if (!reboot_thru_bios) { if (efi_enabled) { efi.reset_system(EFI_RESET_COLD, EFI_SUCCESS, 0, NULL); Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c @@ -114,8 +114,15 @@ void machine_shutdown(void) void machine_emergency_restart(void) { + unsigned long ecx = cpuid_ecx(1); int i; + /* + * Disable any possibly active VT context (if VT supported): + */ + if (test_bit(5, &ecx)) /* has VT support */ + asm volatile (".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xc4"); /* vmxoff */ + /* Tell the BIOS if we want cold or warm reboot */ *((unsigned short *)__va(0x472)) = reboot_mode; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/