My tiger machine hangs since 2.6.23 with commit above. I always saw oops in ia64_sal_physical_id_info(). In 2.6.22, if ia64_pal_logical_to_phys returns UNIMPLENTED, ia64_sal_physical_id_info() isn't called. Below patch fixes the issue.
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c index 32ee597..6e0290b 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c @@ -878,13 +878,10 @@ identify_siblings(struct cpuinfo_ia64 *c) printk(KERN_ERR "ia64_pal_logical_to_phys failed with %ld\n", status); - return; } - - info.overview_ppid = 0; - info.overview_cpp = 1; - info.overview_tpc = 1; + return; } + if ((status = ia64_sal_physical_id_info(&pltid)) != PAL_STATUS_SUCCESS) { printk(KERN_ERR "ia64_sal_pltid failed with %ld\n", status); return; @@ -892,9 +889,6 @@ identify_siblings(struct cpuinfo_ia64 *c) c->socket_id = (pltid << 8) | info.overview_ppid; - if (info.overview_cpp == 1 && info.overview_tpc == 1) - return; - c->cores_per_socket = info.overview_cpp; c->threads_per_core = info.overview_tpc; c->num_log = info.overview_num_log; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html