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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	olel@ans.pl, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	rajesh.shah@intel.com, ak@muc.de
Subject: Re: More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it on 2.6.16-rc6
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:44:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060315054416.GF3205@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060313150435.A26689@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

Ashok Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:22:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > And does it affect pretend-x86-hotplug, or is it only affecting real hotplug?
> > 
> its no more pretend-x86, in the past we used to put the cpu in idle(), 
> now we do put the cpu in halt and bring back by another startup ipi, just like 
> boot sequence, both for x86 and x86_64.

That's actually broken since 2.6.14 (at least on my P3 box); please
see:

Subject: i386 cpu hotplug bug - instant reboot when onlining secondary

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/19/186



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-15  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-12  2:04 More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it on 2.6.16-rc6 Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-03-12  5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-12 11:04   ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-03-12 11:25     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-12 13:05       ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-03-12 15:35         ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2006-03-12 21:13           ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-03-12 22:30             ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 19:36               ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-13 19:51                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 20:05                   ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-13 22:22                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 23:04                       ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-15  5:44                         ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2006-03-15  6:18                           ` Shaohua Li
2006-03-15  7:31                             ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-15  9:37                               ` [PATCH] No need to protect current->group_info in sys_getgroups(), in_group_p() and in_egroup_p() Eric Dumazet
2006-03-20 19:09                                 ` [PATCH] Use unsigned int types for a faster bsearch Eric Dumazet
2006-03-22  5:06                                   ` [PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables Eric Dumazet
2006-03-22  5:15                                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-22  6:23                                     ` [RFC, PATCH] avoid some atomics in open()/close() for monothreaded processes Eric Dumazet
2006-03-22  6:41                                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-22  6:59                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2006-03-22  7:03                                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-15 18:09                               ` More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it on 2.6.16-rc6 Ashok Raj
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2006-03-15 10:50 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-15 15:44 ` Krzysztof Oledzki

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