From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:53:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090825195345.GF6456@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090825191231.GA22821@elte.hu>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 09:12:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
>Furthermore, commit 2759c3287 did not declare any side-effects and
>clearly causes a side-effect on vSMP which apparently has an
>overlapping set of initial APIC ids.
>
>Ravikiran, your patch does not do a clear revert of this bit though.
>If you do a plain revert of the line above alone, does that fix the
>problem too?
>
Yes it does. However, it probably reads local apic id when it shouldn't.
I am right now trying out the other patch Yinghai posted (based on
is_vsmp_box()), and report results in a few.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-24 18:26 [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-24 23:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 0:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 1:38 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 5:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 1:26 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 5:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 17:17 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 18:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 18:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-08-25 18:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-25 19:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 19:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 19:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 20:36 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 20:44 ` [PATCH] x86: fix vsmp booting with phys_pkg_id changing Yinghai Lu
2009-08-26 8:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-26 8:15 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix vSMP boot crash tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 19:53 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai [this message]
2009-08-25 18:59 ` [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-08-25 19:27 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 19:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 19:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-08-25 19:20 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-08-25 19:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 19:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-08-25 18:35 ` Yinghai Lu
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