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Date:	Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:09:21 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mel@....ul.ie
Subject: Re: [BUG] next-20081216 - WARNING: at kernel/smp.c:333	smp_call_function_mask

Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> [2008-12-28 13:55:10]:
> 
>> * Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ingo,
>>>
>>> 	kernel still crashes, with the updated patch.
>> hm, i thought we got all bugs fixed - could you try latest tip/master:
>>
>>   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
>>
>> does it still crash in the same way? (if yes then please attach the new 
>> crashlog if it's easy to do)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> 	Ingo
> 
> Hi Ingo/Yinghai,
> 
> 	I tried today's tip/master against 2.6.28, the kernel still crashes
> at boot up.

please try following patch on top of tip/master

YH

---

[PATCH] sparseirq: change arch_init_chip_data to pointer

Impact: fix panic

some gcc compiler will remove the weak global blank function

try to workaround it:
1. one time path: add printk
2. multi time path: change to function pointer

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c |    7 ++++++-
 include/linux/irq.h       |    2 +-
 init/main.c               |    4 ++++
 kernel/irq/handle.c       |    5 ++++-
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ static struct irq_cfg irq_cfgx[NR_IRQS]
 	[15] = { .vector = IRQ15_VECTOR, },
 };
 
+static int real_arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu);
+
 int __init arch_early_irq_init(void)
 {
 	struct irq_cfg *cfg;
@@ -189,6 +191,9 @@ int __init arch_early_irq_init(void)
 			cpumask_setall(cfg[i].domain);
 	}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
+	arch_init_chip_data = real_arch_init_chip_data;
+#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -232,7 +237,7 @@ static struct irq_cfg *get_one_free_irq_
 	return cfg;
 }
 
-int arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
+static int real_arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
 {
 	struct irq_cfg *cfg;
 
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/irq.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/irq.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/irq.h
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ struct irq_desc {
 
 extern int early_irq_init(void);
 extern int arch_early_irq_init(void);
-extern int arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu);
+extern int (*arch_init_chip_data)(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu);
 extern void arch_init_copy_chip_data(struct irq_desc *old_desc,
 					struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu);
 extern void arch_free_chip_data(struct irq_desc *old_desc, struct irq_desc *desc);
Index: linux-2.6/init/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/init/main.c
+++ linux-2.6/init/main.c
@@ -544,11 +544,15 @@ void __init __weak thread_info_cache_ini
 
 int __init __weak arch_early_irq_init(void)
 {
+	printk(KERN_DEBUG "calling __weak arch_early_irq_init()\n");
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
 int __init __weak early_irq_init(void)
 {
+	printk(KERN_DEBUG "calling __weak early_irq_init()\n");
+
 	return arch_early_irq_init();
 }
 
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/irq/handle.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/irq/handle.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/irq/handle.c
@@ -86,11 +86,14 @@ void init_kstat_irqs(struct irq_desc *de
 		desc->kstat_irqs = (unsigned int *)ptr;
 }
 
-int __weak arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
+static int weak_arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int (*arch_init_chip_data)(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu) =
+			 weak_arch_init_chip_data;
+
 static void init_one_irq_desc(int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
 {
 	memcpy(desc, &irq_desc_init, sizeof(struct irq_desc));
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