Re: [APIC] Avoid change apic_id failure panic

[Andrew Morton]

Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've received two reports at http://bugs.debian.org/251207 where
> ioapic caused machines to lock up during booting due to the
> change apic_id panic in arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c.
> 
> Since it appears that we can avoid panicking at all, I think we
> should replace the panic calls with the following patch which
> attempts to continue after the failure.
> 
> I've also done the same thing to the other panic() call in the
> same function.

Well.  Question is, why are we getting insame APIC ID's in there in the
first place?

-
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/