Re: don't taint UP K7's running SMP kernels.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 16:43:04 EST


Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 14:32 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> We have a test that looks for invalid pairings of certain athlon/durons
> that weren't designed for SMP, and taint accordingly (with 'S') if we find
> such a configuration. However, this test shouldn't fire if there's only
> a single CPU present. It's perfectly valid for an SMP kernel to boot on UP
> hardware for example.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- linux-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c~ 2006-08-03 14:29:47.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 2006-08-03 14:30:43.000000000 -0400
> @@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ static void __devinit smp_store_cpu_info
> */
> if ((c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD) && (c->x86 == 6)) {
>
> + if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
> + goto valid_k7;
> +
> /* Athlon 660/661 is valid. */
> if ((c->x86_model==6) && ((c->x86_mask==0) || (c->x86_mask==1)))
> goto valid_k7;

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/