From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Collins Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:33:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix for sparc64 SMP boot failures Message-Id: <20041205233344.GD8814@phunnypharm.org> List-Id: References: <20041204201211.33b4b0f9.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20041204201211.33b4b0f9.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org > 1) The kernel must be > 4MB in size. You can check this via > looking at System.map for the kernel image and checking > if the final symbol "_end" is at an address >= 0x800000 > > 2) The object "p1275buf" must cross a PAGE_SIZE (8K) boundary. > > If this is true, secondary cpus will not boot up and instead > will hang in the kernel TLB miss handler. Cool. This sounds like the bug that hit once during the bigkernel/silo testing. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/