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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4, maxcpus=1 regression
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:03:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070829040345.GA5260@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070829035554.GA838@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> maxcpus=1 fails to boot on my T60 laptop, it hangs in early bootup 
> (right after setting up the local APICs). I bisected it down to this 
> recent commit:
> 
> | commit 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4
> | Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> | Date:   Thu Aug 16 03:34:22 2007 -0400
> |
> |     ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
> 
> reverting that commit makes the system boot again. I've attached the 
> .config.

i suspect it's due to this:

 -early_param("maxcpus=", maxcpus);
 +__setup("maxcpus=", maxcpus);

i'm quite sure maxcpus still needs to be an early-param.

	Ingo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-29  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-28  1:58 Linux 2.6.23-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2007-08-28 10:09 ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2007-08-28 10:33   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-28 10:42     ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2007-08-29  3:55 ` Linux 2.6.23-rc4, maxcpus=1 regression Ingo Molnar
2007-08-29  4:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-29  4:03   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-29  4:05     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-29  4:11       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-29  4:03   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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