Re: [patch] CONFIG_NR_CPUS

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 15:55:08 EST

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On Jun 06, 2002 12:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But the arch maintainers should test one case please - x86
> was locking up at boot on quad CPU with NR_CPUS=2. Others may do
> the same.

Just a guess, but this could be because the two CPUs chosen for the
boot sequence are not physically numbered 0 and 1, so they are
overwriting the bounds of the per-CPU arrays.

Cheers, Andreas

-- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/

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