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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix CPU hotplug with new time infrastructure
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:46:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060213024640.GC3293@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602121351400.1579@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> tsc_disable was marked __initdata so we were accessing random data (which 
> happened to have a set bit) so upon warm cpu online we would disable the 
> TSC, resulting in the following. Nathan does this fix your triple fault?

Doesn't apply to latest -linus, which is where I've been seeing that.
I found tsc_disable in arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c, but it's
marked __devinitdata.

So my problem would appear to be something different; I'll try to get
more information, thanks.


> root@arusha cpu1 {0:0} echo 1 > online
> Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
> Disabling TSC...
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 797.62 BogoMIPS 
> (lpj=3988115)
> CPU1: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
> migration_cost=2595
> root@arusha cpu1 {0:0} ps
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
>  2432 ttyS0    00:00:00 tcsh
>  2490 ttyS0    00:00:00 ps
> root@arusha cpu1 {0:0} ps
> Segmentation fault
> root@arusha cpu1 {0:139}
> 
> <signed-off-by> Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
> diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 tsc.c
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c	11 Feb 2006 16:55:15 -0000	1.1.1.1
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c	12 Feb 2006 22:00:12 -0000
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
>   */
>  unsigned int tsc_khz;
>  
> -int tsc_disable __initdata = 0;
> +int tsc_disable __cpuinitdata = 0;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_TSC
>  static int __init tsc_setup(char *str)
> -
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      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-13  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-12 22:04 [PATCH] Fix CPU hotplug with new time infrastructure Zwane Mwaikambo
2006-02-13  2:46 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]

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