Re: 2.5.3[3,4] Preemption problem

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
09 Sep 2002 17:52:11 -0400


On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 17:31, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

> Halting system...
> Shutting down devices
> Power down.
> note: halt[15347] exited with preempt_count 1

Note the "note" - this is just advisory and is not harmful. :)

Somewhere in the shutdown logic a lock (probably the BKL) is not
released (and why not, we are shutting down?). I'll see if I can find
it...

Robert Love

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