Re: [patch] fix NMI watchdog, 2.5.34

From: Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@mwaikambo.name)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 13:11:49 EST


On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:

> Well spotted. You might want to test the following patch which
> catches calls to smp_call_function() before the cpus are actually
> online. I ran a variant on my (crappy, old, SMP) box before I sent
> the patch to Linus, and all I saw was the (harmless) tlb_flush.

hmm...

> diff -urNp --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
> --- linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c Sun Sep 1 12:22:57 2002
> +++ working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c Tue Sep 10 14:35:07 2002
> @@ -1218,7 +1218,10 @@ int __devinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +unsigned int smp_done = 0;
> +
> void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
> {
> zap_low_mappings();
> + smp_done = 1;

I've got an SMP box which dies reliably at zap_low_mappings, i wonder if
this could be the same problem. My BSP sits spinning on the completion
check.

        Zwane

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