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From: Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>
To: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] bug in cpuid & msr on nosmp machine
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 22:44:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405192245.07235.jeffpc@optonline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40AB8CDF.8060408@free.fr>

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On Wednesday 19 May 2004 12:35, matthieu castet wrote:
> hi,
>
> on monocpu machine (and maybe even on smp machine), when you try to
> acces to a cpu that don't exist (/dev/cpu/1/cpuid), cpuid (msr) call
> cpu_online, but on nosmp machine if the cpu!=0 this procude a BUG();
> So I add a check that verify if the cpu can exist before calling
> cpu_online.

Added a check? I think your patch is reversed.

Jeff.
 
- -  if (cpu >= num_possible_cpus() || !cpu_online(cpu))
+  if (!cpu_online(cpu))
     return -ENXIO;             /* No such CPU */

- -- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-20  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-19 16:35 [patch] bug in cpuid & msr on nosmp machine matthieu castet
2004-05-19 17:46 ` matthieu castet
2004-05-20  2:44 ` Jeff Sipek [this message]
2004-05-20  9:51   ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-20  7:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-20  8:34   ` Rusty Russell
2004-05-20  8:51     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-20  9:30       ` Rusty Russell
2004-05-20  9:57       ` Rusty Russell
     [not found] <1XCh4-1jO-67@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1XRg3-4LW-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1XRg3-4LW-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1XSc3-5y3-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-22  8:13       ` Andi Kleen

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