From: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Minimize per_cpu reservations patch causes NULL
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:07:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225926457.1605.29.camel@oberon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225830514.13942.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 15:28 -0500, Doug Chapman wrote:
> So, it seems the options to fix this that I can think of are:
>
> 1) try to get the info regarding offline CPUs earlier either by calling
> acpi_boot_init() earlier (probably not possible prior to calling find_memory())
> or walk a subset of the ACPI tables to get the number of offline CPUs sooner
> (which sounds ugly).
This ended up being a clean way to resolve this. I just posted the patch, see
the "[PATCH][IA64] fix boot panic caused by offline CPUs" posting.
- Doug
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 20:28 [REGRESSION] Minimize per_cpu reservations patch causes NULL ptr Doug Chapman
2008-11-04 20:35 ` [REGRESSION] Minimize per_cpu reservations patch causes NULL Doug Chapman
2008-11-04 21:12 ` Luck, Tony
2008-11-04 21:21 ` Doug Chapman
2008-11-05 23:07 ` Doug Chapman [this message]
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