Re: [PATCH] UV: remove erroneous BAU initialization

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 02 2009 - 11:27:28 EST



* Cliff Wickman <cpw@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Cliff Wickman <cpw@xxxxxxx>
>
> UV is the SGI "UltraViolet" machine, which is x86_64 based.
> BAU is the "Broadcast Assist Unit", used for TLB shootdown in UV.
>
> This patch removes the allocation and initialization of an unused table.
>
> This table is left over from a development test mode. It is unused in
> the present code.
> And it was incorrectly initialized: 8 entries allocated but 17 initialized,
> causing slab corruption.
>
> This patch should go into 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 as well as the current tree.
>
> Diffed against 2.6.28 (linux-next, 12/30/08)
>
> Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/tlb_uv.c | 9 ---------
> 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

applied to tip/x86/urgent with a Cc: stable tag, thanks Cliff,

Ingo
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