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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>,
	Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: divide error in select_task_rq_fair()
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:00:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101105020013.GA13484@helgaas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288881474.2659.123.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 03:37:54PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le jeudi 04 novembre 2010 à 08:28 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas a écrit :
> > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 06:19:52AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 22:12 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas a écrit :
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > With current upstream, I see the following crash at boot-time:
> > > > 
> > > >     Brought up 64 CPUs
> > > >     Total of 64 processors activated (289366.52 BogoMIPS).
> > > >     divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP 
> > > >     last sysfs file: 
> > > >     CPU 1 
> > > >     Modules linked in:
> > > > 
> > > >     Pid: 2, comm: kthreadd Not tainted 2.6.37-rc1-00027-gff8b16d #271 /ProLiant DL980 G7
> > > >     RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81034645>]  [<ffffffff81034645>] select_task_rq_fair+0x62a/0x7a0
> > > > 
> > > > Complete dmesg below; let me know if you need more info.
> > > 
> > > Is the machine runs OK if you build a kernel with NR_CPUS=128 ?
> > 
> > Nope, it fails the same way with NR_CPUS=128.  Dmesg below.
> 
> Sorry, just try 256 or 512, it seems you have a pretty big machine ?

Is that going to help you debug the problem?  The solution is not going
to be something like "set NR_CPUS=x".  If NR_CPUS is too small, the
machine should still *boot*, even if we can't use all the CPUs in the
box.

Bjorn

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-05  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04  4:12 divide error in select_task_rq_fair() Bjorn Helgaas
2010-11-04  5:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-04 14:28   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-11-04 14:37     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05  2:00       ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2010-11-05  6:17         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 18:28           ` Myron Stowe
2010-11-12  6:22             ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-11-12 14:06               ` Myron Stowe
2010-11-14 17:36               ` Myron Stowe
2010-11-14 19:11                 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-11-18 23:32                   ` Myron Stowe
2010-11-22  5:25                     ` [PATCH] x86, acpi: Parse all SRAT cpu entries even have cpu num limitation Yinghai Lu
2010-12-15 22:09                     ` divide error in select_task_rq_fair() Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-11-14  1:15             ` Yinghai Lu

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