On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:37:45PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> While testing 3.7 RC1 I discovered that invoking the function 
> orderly_poweroff()
> from an interrupt context will trigger an ASSERT(). This was not the case till
> recently. The comment preceding the orderly_poweroff() function claims that 
> this
> function can be invoked from any context and in the current Hyper-V util 
> driver,
> we support host-driven orderly shut down of the guest by invoking this
> orderly_poweroff() function in the context of the message callback. This code 
> has
> been working for a very long time and it is broken now. Is my assumption that
> orderly_poweroff() could be invoked from the interrupt context a wrong 
> assumption?

Can you check 3.7-rc2?  If that also fails, care to do a 'git bisect'
from 3.6 to 3.7-rc1 to find the problem patch?

thanks,

greg k-h
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