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authorMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>2008-05-12 21:21:13 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-08 11:31:26 +0200
commit5deb0b2a25b7b568ab81f7c38052572ecf4ccc96 (patch)
tree5718d2880139f39f124f4c8014d0d871fcef99d5 /arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
parent3461b0af025251bbc6b3d56c821c6ac2de6f7209 (diff)
downloadlinux-5deb0b2a25b7b568ab81f7c38052572ecf4ccc96.tar.gz
x86: leave initial __cpu_pda array in place until cpus are booted
Ingo Molnar wrote:
...
> they crashed after about 3 randconfig iterations with:
>
>   early res: 4 [8000-afff] PGTABLE
>   early res: 5 [b000-b87f] MEMNODEMAP
> PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff8077a150 error 2 cr2 37
> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-sched-devel.git-x86-latest.git #14
>
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff81466196>] early_idt_handler+0x56/0x6a
>  [<ffffffff8077a150>] ? numa_set_node+0x30/0x60
>  [<ffffffff8077a129>] ? numa_set_node+0x9/0x60
>  [<ffffffff8147a543>] numa_init_array+0x93/0xf0
>  [<ffffffff8147b039>] acpi_scan_nodes+0x3b9/0x3f0
>  [<ffffffff8147a496>] numa_initmem_init+0x136/0x150
>  [<ffffffff8146da5f>] setup_arch+0x48f/0x700
>  [<ffffffff802566ea>] ? clockevents_register_notifier+0x3a/0x50
>  [<ffffffff81466a87>] start_kernel+0xd7/0x440
>  [<ffffffff81466422>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x222/0x280
...
Here's the fixup...  This one should follow the previous patches.

Thanks,
Mike
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/head64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/head64.c10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 0ab59edd7067..4bcb61cd9fcd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -29,17 +29,13 @@
 static struct x8664_pda _boot_cpu_pda __read_mostly;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
 /*
- * We install an empty cpu_pda pointer table to trap references before
- * the actual cpu_pda pointer table is created in setup_cpu_pda_map().
+ * We install an empty cpu_pda pointer table to indicate to early users
+ * (numa_set_node) that the cpu_pda pointer table for cpus other than
+ * the boot cpu is not yet setup.
  */
 static struct x8664_pda *__cpu_pda[NR_CPUS] __initdata;
 #else
-static struct x8664_pda *__cpu_pda[1] __read_mostly;
-#endif
-
-#else /* !CONFIG_SMP (NR_CPUS will be 1) */
 static struct x8664_pda *__cpu_pda[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
 #endif