Re: Warning in during hotplug on 2.6.27-rc2-git5

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Aug 17 2008 - 17:50:41 EST


On Thursday, 14 of August 2008, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 05:53:57PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 13 of August 2008, Mark Langsdorf wrote:
> > > > I'm seeing the following error message when I hotunplug and replug
> > > > a cpu in 2.6.27-rc2-git5. The system becomes unstable almost
> > > > immediately afterwards.
> > >
> > > Hm, it seems that MCE is involved somehow. Andi, can you
> > have a look at this,
> > > please?
> >
> > FWIW the mce code here actually hasn't changed for a long time.
> >
> >
> > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > > WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:463 sysfs_add_one+0x33/0x39()
> > > > sysfs: duplicate filename 'machinecheck4' can not be created
> >
> > The only way I could see that happening if CPU_DEAD/CPU_ONLINE
> > is not properly balanced.
>
> I'm still seeing it on 2.6.27-rc2, even with the
> patch here http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/30/171 and the
> wbinvd_halt code patch applied. Maybe something else
> broke in some of the recent hotplug changes?

Mark, have you tried to test with commit 34ae7f35a21694aa5cb8829dc5142c39d73d6ba0
(your "preregister support for powernow-k8" patch) reverted and MCE enabled?

Rafael
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