linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc6: early panic with boot option "nosmp"

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Message-ID: <20081204153411.GA18306@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:34:11 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc6: early panic with boot option "nosmp"


* Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> > The exception raised on dereferencing mpf or mpf_found.
> 
> This obvious patch should fix it then. Does it?
> 
> --
> 
> Fix early exception in __get_smp_config with nosmp
> 
> Bail out early when there is no MP table.
> 
> Reported by Wu Fengguang
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Andi!

	Ingo
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