Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 16:13:29 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (And no, on 32-bit x86, we don't allow more than 128 CPU's. I don't
> think such an insane machine has ever existed).

and if people _really_ want to boot a large-smp 32-bit kernel on some
new, tons-of-cpus box, as a workaround they can enable the spinlock
debugging code, which has no limitation on the number of CPUs supported.

Ingo
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