Re: [PATCH, resend] eliminate spurious pointless WARN_ON()s

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:48 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:21:50PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > Namely during early boot, the panic() or BUG() paths may end up in
> > smp_call_function_*() with just a single online CPU. In that situation
> > the warnings generated are not only meaningless, but also result in
> > relevant output being cluttered.
> 
> I actually have patches that just fix panic/shutdown to never call
> smp_call_function(), but use an own vector. It does all kinds of other things
> too that are not appropiate in panic, like allocating memory.

Oh? The only allocation that it does it at cpu-hotplug, where it
allocates a cpu-mask thingy, and that's only a real allocation on
NR_CPUS>64.



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