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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [patch] fix NMI watchdog, 2.5.34
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:19:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020910054147.CD7972C201@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Sep 2002 21:45:20 +0200." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209092144140.10544-100000@localhost.localdomain>

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209092144140.10544-100000@localhost.localdomain> you
 write:
> 
> the attached patch fixes the NMI watchdog to trigger on all CPUs - the
> cpu_up() code broke it long time ago. With this patch NMI interrupts get
> generated on all CPUs, not just the boot CPU.

Well spotted.  You might want to test the following patch which
catches calls to smp_call_function() before the cpus are actually
online.  I ran a variant on my (crappy, old, SMP) box before I sent
the patch to Linus, and all I saw was the (harmless) tlb_flush.

diff -urNp --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
--- linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c	Wed Aug 28 09:29:40 2002
+++ working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c	Tue Sep 10 14:50:15 2002
@@ -561,9 +561,15 @@ int smp_call_function (void (*func) (voi
  * hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
  */
 {
+	extern int smp_done;
 	struct call_data_struct data;
 	int cpus = num_online_cpus()-1;
 
+	if (!smp_done) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "smp_call_function %p called before SMP!\n",
+		       func);
+		show_stack(NULL);
+	}
 	if (!cpus)
 		return 0;
 
diff -urNp --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
--- linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c	Sun Sep  1 12:22:57 2002
+++ working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c	Tue Sep 10 14:35:07 2002
@@ -1218,7 +1218,10 @@ int __devinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+unsigned int smp_done = 0;
+
 void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
 {
 	zap_low_mappings();
+	smp_done = 1;
 }
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-10  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-09 19:45 [patch] fix NMI watchdog, 2.5.34 Ingo Molnar
2002-09-10  5:19 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-09-10 18:11   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-12  7:48     ` Rusty Russell

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