Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 - Kernel Panic on IO-APIC

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 15:56:23 EST


On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> hm. This smells like a startup ordering problem, but everything which
> refresh_zone_stat_thresholds() should be set up by the time we run
> initcalls. Maybe the zone lists are bad?

refresh_zone_stat_thresholds goes through each zone and updates
the stat threshold for every per cpu structure in each zone.

So this could be a processor marked online where the pcp structures have
not been allocated or a zone NULL pointer.

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