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From: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:07:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Minimize per_cpu reservations patch causes NULL
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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