From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Nielsen Message-ID: <19990123010552.A182@gondolin> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:05:52 -0800 To: Troy Benjegerdes Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au Subject: Re: kswapd and SMP still broke on 2.2.0-pre9 References: <199901230259.NAA17964@tango.anu.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Troy Benjegerdes on Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:54:16PM -0600 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > > > > kswapd is still dieing on boot with SMP enabled (and this time the second > > > processor is actually active) > > > > > > Does this indicate something is wrong with SMP and the MM code, or that > > > some PPC-specific part needs fixing? I've tried to keep up on > > > linux-kernel, but it's a little overwhelming ;) > > > > The SMP stuff in Linux/PPC currently only supports the Apple MP > > architecture (I think they call it "powersurge"). Your MTX board > > probably has entirely different ways of coordinating the CPUs. Have > > you looked at arch/ppc/kernel/smp.c? I think that's where you'd have > > to start changing things. > > This is true, and I need to finish stuff in smp.c, but the same crash > occured from 2.2.0-pre5 on, without the second CPU being active. Patching > the kswapd portion of back to 2.2.0-pre4 fixed this.. Look for a message > in the archives from Ryan Nielson, I believe. > > Can anyone verify 2.2.0-pre9 works on a SMP Pmac? (or for that matter, > vger.. if vger works I can figure out what changed) vger-pre8 and 2.2.0-pre9 dont work. on an Apple 9600/200MP. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]