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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] x86_64: Make trap_init() happen earlier - dropped
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:17:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509091617.40770.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050908163757.GQ3966@smtp.west.cox.net>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-09 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-08 16:37 [PATCH 2.6.13] x86_64: Make trap_init() happen earlier Tom Rini
2005-09-09  8:01 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-09 14:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-09-09 15:27   ` [PATCH 2.6.13] x86_64: Make trap_init() happen earlier - dropped Bob Picco

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