Hi, Eric,

I agree with your idea, I'll prepare another patch, thanks for remind this 
possible issue.

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Best Regards,
Feng Hong
Application Processor Software Engnieer 
Marvell Technology (Shanghai) Ltd


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:ebied...@xmission.com] 
Sent: 2012年9月19日 13:58
To: Feng Hong
Cc: a...@linux-foundation.org; gorcu...@openvz.org; keesc...@chromium.org; 
serge.hal...@canonical.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] poweroff: fix bug in orderly_poweroff

Feng Hong <hongf...@marvell.com> writes:

> Hi, Eric
>
> 1. We are developing on an Android phone platform, we use thermal
> framework to monitor the temperature, when the temperature above like
> 110 degree, thermal framework will use orderly_shutdown to shutdown
> phone, however, on Android platform there is no " /sbin/poweroff " cmd
> ready . Then we want "fail ret" to trigger force shutdown (use
> kernel_power_off), but always we get "suc ret"

> 2. Here the caller just wait for "poweroff" userspace application, if
> it block the called, then it's the "poweroff" problem itself

> 3. As in the original orderly_shutdown design, we must get the right
> "ret", if this ret is always "0", then it obey orderly_poweroff design
> goal. Step 2: force shutdown is always useless code. 

That sounds like a clear case that we need to change it to
UMH_WAIT_EXEC.

Changing it to UMH_WAIT_PROC seems much more dangerous.

Eric
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