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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: ERIC NORTHUP <eric.northup@jhu.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: 4way smp on ppc32
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:05:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080720349.1435.11.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7eb2247ee728.7ee7287eb224@jhumail.jhu.edu>


On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:57, ERIC NORTHUP wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to get my 4-processor Daystar GenesisMP system to run Linux in smp mode,
> without success.  The system works reliably with a uniprocessor kernel.
> But it oopses on boot with an smp kernel.  I have attached a boot log from a
> serial console for a 2.6 kernel, but I get similar messages  with other
> kernels I've tried.  Although the log is from 2.6.4, I've tried 2.6.5-pre3 which
> included some ppc32 fixes, though they didn't fix this problem.
> I've also tried different gcc versions.
>
> I don't understand why only 2 of the 4 cpus would respond to the smp_call_function().
> Any suggestions for where to start looking?  I am not subscribed to linuxppc-dev,
> so please CC me on replies.  Thanks,

Interesting... Apparently, all the CPUs are coming in, but interrupts
don't get properly delivered to the "other" CPUs...

I'll have a look, that setup should work. Did you try a 2.4 kernel ?

Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-31  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-31  1:57 4way smp on ppc32 ERIC NORTHUP
2004-03-31  8:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-03-31  8:17   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-31 17:56     ` Mark Guertin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-04  0:59 ERIC NORTHUP
2004-04-05 21:39 ` Mark Guertin
2004-04-06  3:37 ERIC NORTHUP
2004-04-06  5:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] ` <000001c41b9e$8ca8c530$d100000a@sbs2003.local>
2004-04-07 14:54   ` Mark Guertin

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