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authorMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>2008-05-12 21:21:12 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-08 11:28:47 +0200
commit7496b60654e759d0b9008b80908e80727904b3c4 (patch)
treedb90802776356fc03f67cb288ba925f091a95e23 /arch/x86/kernel
parentdbb6152e6f72df367f8a955586c5e6282a7255e5 (diff)
x86: fix remove cpu_pda table patch
Mike Travis wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote: >> >>> [Ingo - please replace "PATCH 07/11" with this one.] >>> >>> * Remove 544k bytes from the kernel by removing the boot_cpu_pda >>> array from the data section and allocating it during startup. >>> >>> Fixed panic in setup_per_cpu_areas when HOTPLUG_CPU not set. >>> >>> For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree. >> sched-devel.git randconfig testing found another crash with your queue: >> >> [ 0.111060] Brought up 1 CPUs >> [ 0.111986] Total of 1 processors activated (4022.73 BogoMIPS). >> [ 0.112987] Testing NMI watchdog ... <1>BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 >> [ 0.114982] IP: [<ffffffff8180d4a0>] check_nmi_watchdog+0xb0/0x210 >> [ 0.114982] PGD 0 >> [ 0.114982] Oops: 0000 [1] SMP >> [ 0.114982] CPU 0 >> [............] >> >> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Mon_Apr_28_23_25_25_CEST_2008.bad >> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/log-Mon_Apr_28_23_25_25_CEST_2008.bad >> >> Ingo > > Hi Ingo, > > I need a bit more information on your hardware configuration. Building a > kernel with the above config file started up fine on both the Intel and AMD > boxes. > > Based on the above output it looks like it might be a UP machine? ... Ok, I think I found it. In check_nmi_watchdog(): for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++) prev_nmi_count[cpu] = cpu_pda(cpu)->__nmi_count; As I mentioned it works fine on both of my systems so could you try it out? Thanks! Mike -- * Change function check_nmi_watchdog() to use nr_cpu_ids instead of NR_CPUS. Based on: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git + sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
index 5a29ded994f..2861b9408ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void)
if (!atomic_read(&nmi_active))
return 0;
- prev_nmi_count = kmalloc(NR_CPUS * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
+ prev_nmi_count = kmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!prev_nmi_count)
return -1;
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void)
smp_call_function(nmi_cpu_busy, (void *)&endflag, 0, 0);
#endif
- for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++)
+ for (cpu = 0; cpu < nr_cpu_ids; cpu++)
prev_nmi_count[cpu] = cpu_pda(cpu)->__nmi_count;
local_irq_enable();
mdelay((20*1000)/nmi_hz); // wait 20 ticks