Stop scheduler on panic

[Andriy Gapon]

on 17/11/2011 23:02 mdf at FreeBSD.org said the following:
> Another patch related to this area we have at $WORK:
> 
>  #if defined(SMP)
> -       /*
> -        * Bind us to CPU 0 so that all shutdown code runs there.  Some
> -        * systems don't shutdown properly (i.e., ACPI power off) if we
> -        * run on another processor.
> -        */
> -       thread_lock(curthread);
> -       sched_bind(curthread, 0);
> -       thread_unlock(curthread);
> -       KASSERT(PCPU_GET(cpuid) == 0, ("%s: not running on cpu 0", __func__));
> +       /*
> +        * sched_bind can't be done reliably inside of panic.  cpu_reset() will
> +        * rebind us in any case, more reliably.
> +        */
> +       if (panicstr == NULL) {
> +               /*
> +                * Bind us to CPU 0 so that all shutdown code runs there.  Some
> +                * systems don't shutdown properly (i.e., ACPI power off) if we
> +                * run on another processor.
> +                */
> +               thread_lock(curthread);
> +               sched_bind(curthread, 0);
> +               thread_unlock(curthread);
> +               KASSERT(PCPU_GET(cpuid) == 0, ("boot: not running on cpu 0"));
> +       }
>  #endif
>         /* We're in the process of rebooting. */
>         rebooting = 1;

Yes, you have contributed this patch before and it is a part of the bigger
stop-scheduler-on-panic patches.  Have you had a chance to review those? :)

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Andriy Gapon