Re: [PATCHSET x86/core/percpu] improve the first percpu chunkallocation

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Feb 24 2009 - 15:51:38 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git
> > tj-percpu
>
> ok, i pulled it into tip:core/percpu (one conflict resolution
> done - please double check it), and exposed it to -tip testing
> briefly.
>
> Six x86 test-systems failed ;-) One of them had this panic:
>
> Scan SMP from ffff880000000000 for 1024 bytes.
> Scan SMP from ffff88000009fc00 for 1024 bytes.
> Scan SMP from ffff8800000f0000 for 65536 bytes.
> found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000fe680] fe680
> PANIC: early exception 0 rip : error cr2
> PANIC: early exception 0 rip : error cr2

Ah, spoke too soon. Bisection gave this commit from Yinghai:

dc07da5: x86: check range in reserve_early()

Ingo
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