Re: Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how?

Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au)
Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:50:51 +1000

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:58:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Besides, does the reboot system call actually get the BKL? I don't think
> it should need it..

Actually, the machine in question turned out to be UP :)

However, it does have RAID 1 and the notifier call chain stuff looks like
a killer to me since it leads to do_md_stop.

Perhaps we need a RESTART3 that restarts without notifying?

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