linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing boot failure

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Date:	Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:23:44 -0800
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing
 boot failure

Mel Gorman wrote:

> If you send me patches to apply on top of 2.6.25-rc1, I'll give them a spin
> on the machine in question. Reverting didn't work out very well as there are
> too many collisions with patches that were applied later. I eventually got
> the machine booting but it only succeeds because it only brings up one core
> on each processor.  The patch, which is pretty brain damaged is below in case
> it helps you guess what the real problem is. dmesg logs are attached of the
> vanilla failure with acpi=debug and the log with the patch applied showing
> "__cpu_up: bad cpu 1" and "__cpu_up: bad cpu3" (i.e. the second cores of
> each machine).
> 

This should completely undo the change to 16 bit apic ids until we can figure
out the problem with the memory-less nodes.  I checked it on both the numa
and non-numa x86_64 box.

Thanks,
Mike

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