From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750921AbWDIVTT (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 17:19:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750929AbWDIVTS (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 17:19:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:43936 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750921AbWDIVTS (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 17:19:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:18:35 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: leonie herzberg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: alpha DEAD on >=2.6.16-rc3 Message-Id: <20060409131835.1cf142cc.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <44397596.5020809@net4u.de> References: <44397596.5020809@net4u.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org leonie herzberg wrote: > > Hi. I already posted a bugreport on the bugzilla > (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6351) but I feel no one is > recognizing that; and as I see it, it's a rather hard bug since it > throws a kernel panic immediately at boot time. I believe it has to do > with the change made in 2.6.16-rc3 concerning "cpu_possible_map". None > of the newer kernel versions works. > As you can see at the first (and up to now, only) comment, this is not > only my problem. > Maybe it appears only in connection with SMP. I can't tell. Please test ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc1/2.6.17-rc1-mm2/broken-out/alpha-smp-boot-fixes.patch