linux-kernel - Re: [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg

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Message-ID: <20090825195345.GF6456@localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:53:45 -0700
From:	Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@...lex86.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shai@...lex86.org,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: 2.6.31-rc7 crash due to buggy flat_phys_pkg_id

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 09:12:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
>Furthermore, commit 2759c3287 did not declare any side-effects and 
>clearly causes a side-effect on vSMP which apparently has an 
>overlapping set of initial APIC ids.
>
>Ravikiran, your patch does not do a clear revert of this bit though. 
>If you do a plain revert of the line above alone, does that fix the 
>problem too?
>

Yes it does.  However, it probably reads local apic id when it shouldn't.

I am right now trying out the other patch Yinghai posted (based on
is_vsmp_box()), and report results in a few.

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