Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11629] New: quad G5 fails to shut down

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:30:57 -0700

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:20:55 -0700 (PDT)
[email-masked] wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11629
> 
>            Summary: quad G5 fails to shut down
>            Product: Platform Specific/Hardware
>            Version: 2.5
>      KernelVersion: 2.6.27-rc6+wireless bits
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: PPC-64
>         AssignedTo: [email-masked]
>         ReportedBy: [email-masked]
> 
> 
> Latest working kernel version: don't remember, pretty sure 2.6.26 worked but
> have been running development kernels forever
> Earliest failing kernel version: n/a, haven't checked, has been failing for a
> while
> Distribution: debian/unstable
> Hardware Environment: quad G5 powermac
> Software Environment: ?
> Problem Description: machine fails to shut down, 
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> shut down the machine, see it fail.
> 
> http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/dsc_2274.jpg
> 

That went splat in the clockevents code.

I saw a pull request with several fixes float past this morning:

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
To: Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Thomas Gleixner <[email-masked]>, "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>, Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Subject: [git pull] timer fixes
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:41:00 +0200

Fingers crossed..

I'll mark this as a post-2.6.26 regression, although you seem a bit
wobbly on that.