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On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 22:20 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:

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> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 19:52 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:

> > We've got a winner! 2.6.29-rt1

> >

> >> Hmmmm, getting close but not yet a winner :-)

> >

> >> I've been tracking the 2.6.29 rcx series and I'm still having some

> >> problems. 2.6.29-rt1 still does not shutdown correctly with my kernel

> >> configuration options (you need to specify "noreplace-smp" in the kernel

> >> startup line for shutdown to happen - otherwise you get a problem at the

> >> very end of the halt and the machine does not power down).

>

> This is related to your BIOS or motherboard. Do you have the same

> problem with a vanilla 2.6.29?

I have not tested with vanilla 2.6.29 but the problem happens in several

very different machines. I have sent feedback to lkml/Thomas/Ingo. 
> Since I only did reboots, I just performed a shutdown to check and it

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> powers off just fine. I don't use any boot options (only "root=xx quiet

> ro") on this dual-core intel.

> Why shut-down, anyway? s2ram and s2disk work fine with 2.6.29-rt1. I'm

> very very happy (-:

Ok, I'll never turn off the machine and thus conclude there is no

bug! :-)
> >> And I have seen it hung (hard) the whole machine where a normal kernel

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> >> would just work. I'm still trying to find a way to debug that.

>

> I did not have those for a long time (~2years), previously I experienced

> hard lockups when using wifi (iwl3945) and rtirq.

>

> I dare say there's no way to debug that - but you should ask that on

> rt-linux list. There's ways to tweak things in /proc/sys/kernel/sched_*

> if this lock-up is caused by a runaway process.

>

> It could also be CPU overheating, but then the problem should also occur

> with non realtime kernels as well.

Yes, no hardware problems AFAICT. 
-- Fernando
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