Re: [PATCH] x86-64: typo in __assign_irq_vector when updating pos for vector and offset

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sun Oct 22 2006 - 05:12:52 EST


Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 02:35:19AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> Ugh. This is no fun at all. I am assuming this is with cpu hotplug
>> disabled in flat mode.
>
> Correct.
>
>> If my wild set of hypothesis are true the patch below might make those
>> symptoms go away. It isn't a real fix by any means but it is an
>> easy test patch I can generate to generate these giant leaps
>> of deduction, I'm taking in the middle of the night :)
>
> Yeap, this fixes it. Thanks to you and YL for the quick debugging!
>
> May I suggest you CC me in the future on patches in this area and I'll
> give them a quick spin before they hit mainline? less pain for
> everyone involved :-)

:)

Well we still need to fix it right so there should be a couple of more
iterations. I need to sleep on the problem first though :)

Eric
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