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Subject: Re: SMP Panic caused by [PATCH] sched: consolidate sched domains
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
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On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 13:07, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> I've up and downed a few CPUs on an Altix, and it seems to work ok, but that's 
> a pretty basic test.  How about this?

Incidentally, down and up tests won't pick up these initialisation
problems because the SMP paths will already have created the start of
day data structures for these CPUs.  You need to boot with the CPU down
and bring it up after boot to see the issues.

James