From 7496b60654e759d0b9008b80908e80727904b3c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Travis Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:21:12 +0200 Subject: x86: fix remove cpu_pda table patch Mike Travis wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Mike Travis 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: [] 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3