Hi Suresh, Suresh Siddha wrote:
[...] > This problem doesn't happen with more recent kernels and closer > look at the 2.6.32 kernel shows that the code which masks > the IO-APIC RTE's is not working as expected as the nr_ioapic_registers > for each IO-APIC is not yet initialized at this point. In the later > kernels we initialize nr_ioapic_registers much before and > everything works as expected. > > For 2.6.[32..34] kernels, fix this issue by initializing > nr_ioapic_registers early in mp_register_ioapic() > > Relevant upstream commit info: > > commit 7716a5c4ff5f1f3dc5e9edcab125cbf7fceef0af Why not cherry-pick 7716a5c4ff5 in full? Curious, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
