Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:53:45 -0700 | From | Ravikiran G Thirumalai <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id |
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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.
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