Re: [PATCH 0/1] x86: fix remove cpu_pda table patch

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 02:04:49 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > - prev_nmi_count = kmalloc(NR_CPUS * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + prev_nmi_count = kmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> yeah, that makes sense ... i'll reinstate your patches and check.

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

RIP 0x10


http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/log-Wed_Apr_30_00_28_09_CEST_2008.bad
http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Wed_Apr_30_00_28_09_CEST_2008.bad

Ingo
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