Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] x86_64: Make trap_init() happen earlier - dropped

[Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>]

Andi Kleen wrote:	[Fri Sep 09 2005, 10:17:40AM EDT]
> On Thursday 08 September 2005 18:37, Tom Rini wrote:
> > It can be handy in some situations to have run trap_init() sooner than the
> > generic code does.  In order to do this on x86_64 we need to add a custom
> > early_setup_per_cpu_areas() call as well.
> 
> The patch is totally broken and causes crash even under light load
> (just found it after a lengthy binary search) 
> 
> >
> > +void __init early_setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
> > +{
> > +	static char cpu0[PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM] __cacheline_aligned
> > +		__attribute__ ((aligned (SMP_CACHE_BYTES)));
> 
> The original code does
> 
>     /* Copy section for each CPU (we discard the original) */
>         size = ALIGN(__per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
>         if (size < PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM)
>                 size = PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM;
> #endif
> 
> 
> perhaps end-start is larger than PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM ? (using defconfig) 
> 
> Dropped from my tree for now.
> 
> -Andi
Andi:

Sorry about that.  I originally intended this for KGDB only. The hardcoded
PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM value is dangerous and could be the issue.  Let me take
a look at this.

bob